Cheney said in an interview on Fox News: "On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that," he told the Fox host. "There was "some reporting early on … but that was never borne out… [President] George [Bush] … did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11." How important is Cheney's admission? Well, 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam"...
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How Important is Cheney's Admission that There was NEVER Any Evidence Linking Iraq and 9/11?
Washington's Blog
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Cheney said in an interview on Fox News: "On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that," he told the Fox host. "There was "some reporting early on … but that was never borne out… [President] George [Bush] … did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11." How important is Cheney's admission? Well, 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam".
He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time", is the statement "Hard to get a good case." In other words, top officials knew that there wasn't a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway. Moreover, "Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda".
And a Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy. And yet Bush, Cheney and other top administration officials claimed repeatedly for years that Saddam was behind 9/11. See this analysis. Indeed, Bush administration officials apparently swore in a lawsuit that Saddam was behind 9/11.
Moreover, President Bush's March 18, 2003 letter to Congress authorizing the use of force against Iraq, includes the following paragraph:
(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. Therefore, the Bush administration expressly justified the Iraq war to Congress by representing that Iraq planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks. See this, this, this and this. And while many people now focus on the false WMD claims, it is important to remember that - at the time - the Saddam-911 link was at least as important in many people's minds as a reason to invade Iraq. Indeed, given that Cheney and the boys are still pretending that everyone thought that Iraq possessed WMDs, Cheney's admission that there was never any evidence linking Iraq and 9/11 might be even more definitive proof of intentional misrepresentations by Cheney and other high-level members of the Bush administration. Given that the anthrax attacks were also blamed on Iraq by the Pentagon - but they turned out to be the work of an American scientist - and given that it is now accepted by the 9/11 Commission itself as well as high-level military leaders, intelligence officials and others that the government's version of 9/11 is false, additional questions also arise.
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Link: www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/cheney-admits-that-there-was-never-any.html
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| Comment by mary jo - 03 Jun 2009 - 14:44 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | It is true that the pretense or even accusation that Hussein supported the 9/11 event was propaganda used to raise support of the American public and put pressu re on Congress...it is our Congress (as I'm a US citizen) that willfully handed over the power to go to war in Iraq to our President. There were dissenters in Congress like Ron Paul who said NO and protected our Constitution; but most Congress members care more about popularity voting or private interests than the Constitution. The US Congress has been handing over power than crying about it later. They need to cry first rather than after! They don't think before voting...at least in the sense of being protective to the Constitution. We need to bring the power back to the states as in how the www.tenthamendment.org is vocalizing. Washington DC has overtaken all the state's powers and we must fight back, civilly, and this is how we do it! US citizens need to join the efforts of tenthamendment.org and bring the voice back to the people and out of Capitol Hill in Washington DC. |
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