Adam Corolla
02-16-2006, 12:06 PM
A couple days ago, I saw a commercial. Soldiers, or actors playing
soldiers, were saying that the reason we're fighting the war in Iraq is to
protect America from al Qaeda terrorists and that the media has been hiding
that fact from the American people.
I forgot to get the name of the organization, as I was reeling from the fact
I've never in my worst nightmare imagined such a blatant attempt by the
neocons to lie to the American public.
Even Dick Cheney admitted in an interview that there was no substantiated
evidence linking
Iraq to 9/11, other than one report from the Czechs that couldn't be
substantiated. See the transcript of the interview here:
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/06/18/20040618_013402_flash3.htm
America's top terror advisor Richard Clarke investigated, the FBI and the
CIA investigated, and the 9/11 commission investigated, and no credible
evidence tying Iraq to 9/11 was found. Bush even demanded that they had the
"wrong answer" when they told him that and told them to look again.
Richard Clarke, to Lesley Stahl in a 60 Minutes interview, about Bush and
Rumsfeld's desire to hear that Iraq was behind 9/11:
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"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut
the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never
said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no
doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq
did this.
"I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking at
this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.'
"He came back at me and said, "Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a
connection.' And in a very intimidating way. I mean that we should come back
with that answer. We wrote a report."
Clarke continued, "It was a serious look. We got together all the FBI
experts, all the CIA experts. We wrote the report. We sent the report out to
CIA and found FBI and said, 'Will you sign this report?' They all cleared
the report. And we sent it up to the president and it got bounced by the
National Security Advisor or Deputy. It got bounced and sent back saying,
'Wrong answer. ... Do it again.'
"I have no idea, to this day, if the president saw it, because after we did
it again, it came to the same conclusion. And frankly, I don't think the
people around the president show him memos like that. I don't think he sees
memos that he doesn't-- wouldn't like the answer."
"Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bomb Iraq," Clarke said to Stahl.
"And we all said ... no, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need to bomb
Afghanistan. And Rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan.
And there are lots of good targets in Iraq. I said, 'Well, there are lots of
good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with it.
"Initially, I thought when he said, 'There aren't enough targets in-- in
Afghanistan,' I thought he was joking. "I think they wanted to believe that
there was a connection, but the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting
there, I was sitting there saying we've looked at this issue for years. For
years we've looked and there's just no connection."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml
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In spite of the lack of evidence linking Iraq to 9/11, Bush has continued to
insinuate that the Iraq war is a war against terrorism. In reality, we are
fighting against Iraqi people who are fighting an invading foreign power.
As Gandhi said, "I beg you to accept that there is no people on earth who
would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien
power." No matter how rotten one's government is, it's better than being
conquered and occupied by a foreign one, no matter how much lip service they
pay to freeing the people.
Bush is doing exactly what he accused his opponents of doing: rewriting
history. We attacked Iraq because they were supposedly stockpiling
thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons. When it became
apparent they had no such weapons, Bush did one of the few things I admire
him for doing, he admitted pubic that we (our intelligence reports) were
wrong and that there were no WMDs. But then Bush started acting like the
real reason
for the war was to free the people of Iraq. When that didn't go over very
well, he started making it sound like the war on Iraq is a war on al Qaeda!
He constantly refers to it as the "war on terror" and "bringing the fight to
the
terrorists."
The Iraq war is only benefiting one organization: Al Qaeda. The benefit to
al Qaeda is twofold: it's a massive cash hemorrhage for the USA (realistic
estimates put the total cost of the war, after all is said and done, at one
to two trillion dollars)
which is exactly what bin Laden said was one of his major goals, causing
enormous expenses and eventually bankrupting the US; and generating more
recruits for al Qaeda amongst the friends and family of the hundred thousand
or so Iraqi civilians the war has killed so far and the other people in Iraq
and neighboring countries whose outrage over our unprovoked invasion has
left them bent on revenge.
The current administration is al Qaeda's biggest and best ally in their war
against the USA! Though in fairness to the repubs, the dems probably would
have gotten us into this same trap.
soldiers, were saying that the reason we're fighting the war in Iraq is to
protect America from al Qaeda terrorists and that the media has been hiding
that fact from the American people.
I forgot to get the name of the organization, as I was reeling from the fact
I've never in my worst nightmare imagined such a blatant attempt by the
neocons to lie to the American public.
Even Dick Cheney admitted in an interview that there was no substantiated
evidence linking
Iraq to 9/11, other than one report from the Czechs that couldn't be
substantiated. See the transcript of the interview here:
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/06/18/20040618_013402_flash3.htm
America's top terror advisor Richard Clarke investigated, the FBI and the
CIA investigated, and the 9/11 commission investigated, and no credible
evidence tying Iraq to 9/11 was found. Bush even demanded that they had the
"wrong answer" when they told him that and told them to look again.
Richard Clarke, to Lesley Stahl in a 60 Minutes interview, about Bush and
Rumsfeld's desire to hear that Iraq was behind 9/11:
______________________________________________
"The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut
the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never
said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no
doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq
did this.
"I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking at
this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.'
"He came back at me and said, "Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a
connection.' And in a very intimidating way. I mean that we should come back
with that answer. We wrote a report."
Clarke continued, "It was a serious look. We got together all the FBI
experts, all the CIA experts. We wrote the report. We sent the report out to
CIA and found FBI and said, 'Will you sign this report?' They all cleared
the report. And we sent it up to the president and it got bounced by the
National Security Advisor or Deputy. It got bounced and sent back saying,
'Wrong answer. ... Do it again.'
"I have no idea, to this day, if the president saw it, because after we did
it again, it came to the same conclusion. And frankly, I don't think the
people around the president show him memos like that. I don't think he sees
memos that he doesn't-- wouldn't like the answer."
"Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bomb Iraq," Clarke said to Stahl.
"And we all said ... no, no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need to bomb
Afghanistan. And Rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan.
And there are lots of good targets in Iraq. I said, 'Well, there are lots of
good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with it.
"Initially, I thought when he said, 'There aren't enough targets in-- in
Afghanistan,' I thought he was joking. "I think they wanted to believe that
there was a connection, but the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting
there, I was sitting there saying we've looked at this issue for years. For
years we've looked and there's just no connection."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml
__________________________________________________ _______
In spite of the lack of evidence linking Iraq to 9/11, Bush has continued to
insinuate that the Iraq war is a war against terrorism. In reality, we are
fighting against Iraqi people who are fighting an invading foreign power.
As Gandhi said, "I beg you to accept that there is no people on earth who
would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien
power." No matter how rotten one's government is, it's better than being
conquered and occupied by a foreign one, no matter how much lip service they
pay to freeing the people.
Bush is doing exactly what he accused his opponents of doing: rewriting
history. We attacked Iraq because they were supposedly stockpiling
thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons. When it became
apparent they had no such weapons, Bush did one of the few things I admire
him for doing, he admitted pubic that we (our intelligence reports) were
wrong and that there were no WMDs. But then Bush started acting like the
real reason
for the war was to free the people of Iraq. When that didn't go over very
well, he started making it sound like the war on Iraq is a war on al Qaeda!
He constantly refers to it as the "war on terror" and "bringing the fight to
the
terrorists."
The Iraq war is only benefiting one organization: Al Qaeda. The benefit to
al Qaeda is twofold: it's a massive cash hemorrhage for the USA (realistic
estimates put the total cost of the war, after all is said and done, at one
to two trillion dollars)
which is exactly what bin Laden said was one of his major goals, causing
enormous expenses and eventually bankrupting the US; and generating more
recruits for al Qaeda amongst the friends and family of the hundred thousand
or so Iraqi civilians the war has killed so far and the other people in Iraq
and neighboring countries whose outrage over our unprovoked invasion has
left them bent on revenge.
The current administration is al Qaeda's biggest and best ally in their war
against the USA! Though in fairness to the repubs, the dems probably would
have gotten us into this same trap.