NBC Nightly Newsflash: No Link Between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

[babylonsister]

We know it, maybe the rest of the country will catch up finally!
:bounce:

[TahitiNut]

1. That's not "news" ... that's "olds." We KNEW that 4 years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of us marched in protest all over this country. We KNEW that this regime was lying about WMD, lying about Sadaam and terrorism, and lying about "imminent threats."

Four years! War crimes. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[babylonsister]

2. I said we knew it. Maybe those that continually believe there's

a connection might rethink their positions. And that headline was blasted across the tube at the start of the show. Not many people will be able to claim ignorance any longer.

[otohara]

3. At Least NBC Finally Knows

maybe now they will catapulting the Bush propaganda

[OhioBlue]

4. Sadly, I don't think they will catch up.

We have several different groups to deal with... Those of us that knew from the beginning that there was no connection and were sickened and appalled at the * administration's attempts to link the two.

We also have a lot of moderates and independents that figured out at different points during the past couple of years they were lied to and this is probably reflected in the low poll numbers for shrub and positive poll numbers for Congressional Dems

Then we have those that are just prejudice against Arabs and it makes no difference if there is a link between A and B... they are "them", "Nuke 'em all"...

We also have the hard core Republican followers that have almost a cult like reasoning... in their heads, they are saying, oh yeah - no "operational" link... but... there were links... Rush said so, and now the liberal media is just trying to spin it...

I'm sure there are also Republicans that are pissed that they were lied to, but... all things considered... * still got the tax cuts through, conservative judges appointed, etc...

The most interesting group to me is how have the Military and Military families' attitudes evolved through the countless evidence being revealed that Bush lied about so many reasons for invading Iraq. I really want to know what the poor kid that felt a wave of patriotism, sense of duty and responsibility that led him or her to join the Military thinks right now. How badly has the * admin decimated their trust?

[babylonsister]

5. I also wonder about the military; they must feel horribly

duped.
This from the Army Times:
Justification for war in doubt (Army Times)

New report casts doubts on justifications for war

By Rick Maze
Staff writer


A new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee casts continued doubts on the Bush administration’s justifications for going to war with Iraq.

The report, released Friday, finds no direct connections between Iraq and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., and dismisses as unfounded pre-war statements by Bush administration officials about a supposed meeting between one of the Sept. 11 hijackers and an Iraqi intelligence official.


Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had been among those trying to make the link. On Sept. 26, 2002, Rumsfeld said, “We have what we consider to be credible evidence that al-Qaida leaders have sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire weapons of mass destruction.”

Republicans tried to downplay the report. “I think that anyone who has been paying attention the last couple of years will recognize that there is little that is new in this report,” said Sen. Pat Roberts, D-Kan., the intelligence committee chairman. “As we have all known since 2004, this nation and our allies experienced an intelligence failure with respect to pre-war intelligence on Iraq.”

And, Roberts noted, it was not just the Bush administration led astray. He noted that top Democrats, including Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, were among those saying in 2002 that Iraq had an aggressive nuclear weapons program and could have a nuclear bomb within five years. “The long-known fact is that the pre-war intelligence was wrong,” Roberts said.

And your other points are well taken; there are people who will refuse to acknowledge the truth no matter how many facts are floated in their face. Ignorance is not bliss, but they'll never realize that.