Hard quotes by bushco linking saddam and al-qaeda.

[ronzo]

Help a brother out! I'm trying to get together some hard citations of 43*, cheney and crew linking saddam to al-qaeda and 9/11. I found a David Corn article here:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=866
I know there were many of these double talk associations made, including dub's Iraq "policy" speech which occurred right about the same time that infamous 70%er poll.

Does anyone have these quotes handy? If not, let's please assemble a list to refute morans who maintain that this administration did not attempt to link saddam and osama.

Didn't cheney make a whopper quote on Meet the Press?

Thanks in advance.

[bif]

1. Here's one...

http://www.democrats.org/truth/index.html?s=demnews

[bif]

2. And here...

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0730-06.htm

And...

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/cat_bush_administration_lies.html

[City Lights]

3. From the White House web site:

"Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including al-Qaida members."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/response/disarm.html

Will Pitt posted the link in another thread.

[ronzo]

4. Here's one particularly vague reference from shrub's 9/7 speech...

"I recognize that not all of our friends agreed with our decision to enforce the Security Council resolutions and remove Saddam Hussein from power. Yet we cannot let past differences interfere with present duties. Terrorists in Iraq have attacked representatives of the civilized world, and opposing them must be the cause of the civilized world. Members of the United Nations now have an opportunity -- and the responsibility -- to assume a broader role in assuring that Iraq becomes a free and democratic nation. "

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Now that's clear as a bell, right?

edit
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030907-1.html

[TheUnknownPoster]

5. Actually...

The above is a quote from this year referencing the bombing of the UN building in Baghdad, not something trying to link Saddam and al-Qaeda from before the war.

[ronzo]

6. do ya think?

Of course you can take it that way.
You don't see how, in its vaguery, this statement can be misconstrued?

[Brotherjohn]

7. How about a letter to Congress?

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
March 19, 2003
Text Of A Letter From The President To The Speaker Of The House Of Representatives And The President Pro Tempore Of The Senate

March 18, 2003

Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)

Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:

(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and

(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.

Sincerely,

George W. Bush

Source: http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/03031906.htm

[ronzo]

8. Thank you.

That's a slam.
Thanks, Brother John.

[Brotherjohn]

14. Your welcome... and GO SAINTS, too!

(from a displaced New Orleans native)

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9. Powell lies.........

A BuzzFlash News Analysis
September 24, 2003

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/24_powell.html

Did Colin Powell Lie to the U.S. and the U.N.?
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Below are two excerpts from speeches given by Colin Powell. The first in 2001, in which he asserts Iraq could not possibly have weapons of mass destruction, and the second in 2003, two years later, asserting that Iraq had plenty of weapons of mass destruction.

And now we know they haven't found any weapons of mass destruction, just like Colin said in 2001.

Did Colin Powell lie to the U.S. and the U.N.?

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Press Remarks with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa

Secretary Colin L. Powell
Cairo, Egypt (Ittihadiya Palace)
February 24, 2001

"...the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm

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Full text of Colin Powell's speech
US secretary of state's address to the United Nations security council

February 5, 2003

Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.

<snip>

Numerous human sources tell us that the Iraqis are moving not just documents and hard drives, but weapons of mass destruction, to keep them from being found by inspectors.

<snip>

We also have satellite photos that indicate that banned materials have recently been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction facilities.

<snip>

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction; he's determined to make more.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm


A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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10. pre-war quotes (lies) by Bush admin on WMD

Send your friend these quotes:


"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."
- George W. Bush, September 12, 2002

"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."
- Ari Fleischer, December 2, 2002

"We know for a fact that there are weapons there."
- Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent."
- George W. Bush, January 28, 2003

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."
- Colin Powell, February 5, 2003

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."
- George Bush February 8, 2003

"So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think
our judgment has to be clearly not."
- Colin Powell, March 8, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
- George Bush, March 18, 2003

"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad."
- Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

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11. The Lies we Bought : Unchallenged "Evidence" For War

John MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and author of 'Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War'.

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The Lies we Bought

The Unchallenged "Evidence" For War
by John R. MacArthur

Click Here

Excerpt:
"The American media failed the country badly these past eight months. As journalists, what can we do about it?

Politicians know all too well the propaganda dictum related nearly twenty years ago by Peter Teeley, press secretary to then VP Bush. Teeley was responding to complaints that the elder Bush, during a televised debate, had grossly distorted the words of his and Ronald Reagan’s opponents, Mondale and Ferraro. As Teeley explained it to The New York Whore Times

in October 1984, “You can say anything you want during a debate, and 80 million people hear it.” If “anything” turns out to be false and journalists correct it, 'So what. Maybe 200 people read it, or 2,000 or 20,000.'”

more.............

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0605-02.htm

[JackRiddler]

12. Great article to cite...

All the better because it's a RW, pro-Bush source (World Net Daily)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34930

Here's a sample:

The president's spokespeople say they're shocked, shocked, to learn that seven in 10 Americans tell pollsters they blame Saddam Hussein for the 9-11 attacks. Gee, they pondered, wherever did they get such an idea?

Oh, maybe from all the president's speeches and remarks suggesting Saddam was to blame for 9-11, starting with this one:

"Prior to Sept. 11, we thought two oceans would protect us," President Bush said about Iraq in an Oct. 14 speech in Michigan. "After Sept. 11, we've entered into a new era in a new war.

"This is a man that we know has had connections with al-Qaida," he continued, referring to Saddam. "This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use al-Qaida as a forward army. And this is a man that we must deal with for the sake of peace."

Or this one:

"Saddam Hussein and his weapons are a direct threat to this country," Bush said March 6 in a White House news conference. "The attacks of Sept. 11 showed what the enemies of America did with four airplanes. We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with weapons of mass destruction."

Or this:

"Used to be that we could think that you could contain a person like Saddam Hussein, that oceans would protect us from his type of terror," he said at the same press conference. "Sept. 11 should say to the American people that we're now a battlefield, that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist organization could be deployed here at home."

In that press conference, Bush mentioned the Sept. 11 attacks nine times, Saddam 40 times, and Osama zero, effectively morphing Osama into Saddam, as I pointed out in a column just before the war.
During the war, Bush said he couldn't leave "enemies free to plot another Sept. 11 – this time, perhaps, with chemical, biological or nuclear terror."

[denverbill]

13. Yep. The direct quotes are rare.

However, EVERY SINGLE SPEECH Bush made about going to war with Iraq mentioned 9-11. It's no coincidence.