http://www.brendanoneill.net/archives/000033.htmlThe Bush administration has now started to claim that Iraq and Al Qaeda are allies. This is 100% false as everyone not in the administration agrees (in fact Osama offered to make holy war on Iraq with his fighters after Saddam invaded Kuwait). 100% false, but useful for the Bush administration if somehow Americans could come to beleive it is true.
So how do they go about pulling that off?
Recent US statements on whether there's a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda:
Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
'I have no desire to go beyond saying the answer is yes.'
President George W Bush:
'The danger is that al-Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world
.'
Security adviser Condoleezza Rice:
'There clearly are contacts between al-Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented and there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here.'
Bush again:
'I can't distinguish between the two, because they're both equally as bad, and equally as evil and equally as destructive.'
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer:
'We have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al-Qaeda members.'
Rumsfeld:
'We have credible evidence that al-Qaeda leaders have sought contacts in Iraq.'
Fleischer again:
'In the shadowy world of terrorism, sometimes there is no precise way to have definitive information until it is too late.'
And after all this someone comments that 66% of the American public now beleive that there is a link between Iraq and 9-11. I'll try to find a source. Are Americans really this brain dead?
