(Senate Intelligence Committee) Report: No prewar Saddam-al-Qaida tie

[Sapphire Blue]

Report: No prewar Saddam-al-Qaida tie

WASHINGTON - There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war.

The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates."

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

The long-awaited report, said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., a member of the committee, is "a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts" to link Saddam to al-Qaida.

Continued @ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_on_go_co/iraq_report_12

Links to Iraq Intelligence Phase II Reports:

Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments : http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf

The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress : http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiinc.pdf

[Solly Mack]

1. Just part of the report, not the whole report....

Roberts WON'T Release Final Pieces Of Pre-War Intell Report Pre-Election
Panel Set to Release Just Part of Report On Run-Up to War
Full Disclosure May Come Post-Election

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2069263

[Sapphire Blue]

2. Yes, it's the declassified information. Pretty damning.

[Solly Mack]

3. It is indeed. Makes you wonder just what is in the parts they are

afraid to release now...as bad as it is already.

[janx]

4. Roberts is only hurting himself and other Republicans by

delaying the rest of it until after the election. People are angry and will see this for exactly what it is.

[Solly Mack]

5. I agree

Lot of anger in America these days...

[Hubert Flottz]

6. This information needs to all come out before the election.

The GOP is playing politics with our kids lives in Iraq again.

[Supersedeas]

7. Will any cable news pundit dare pose the question to the Vice President?

[maine_raptor]

11. Dead Eye is supposed to be on MTP this coming Sunday, IIRC n/t

[Coexist]

8. knr

[Coexist]

9. this is pretty big - but no one here seems to be celebrating.

Hmmm... that is strange.

[Sapphire Blue]

15. Not strange, just typical... focusing on the topic du jour - ABC's movie.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Like this is news?

Those of us who were posting on DU since before the war knew this. But of course, then we were just one of those 'focus groups' that Bush refused to listen to.

[Solly Mack]

12. Yes - the 10 % ...the fringe...the disgruntled

He called us "disgruntled"

[Coexist]

13. I know -but there are still 49% who need to hear this.

[Sapphire Blue]

14. It should be FRONT PAGE NEWS when the Sen Intel Committee confirms that...

... bush lied.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. BUSH LIED

about going to WAR against a sovereign nation, which he has since destroyed in the process.

Fucking war criminal. I am sick of looking at his smug ass smirking at the whole world. I'm against the death penalty, but in this case I will make an exception.

[Rageneau]

17. I wish there was a blow job somewhere in this story...

So our media would give it as much attention as a runaway bride or something.

[Sapphire Blue]

18. ...

:kick:

[Kingofalldems]

19. Cheney is on MTP Sunday

Will Mr. Timmy ask him about this?

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

20. Summariszation?

I would love to hear a synopsis on this. Unfortunately, I have to make a trip via car and I am the driver. So I won't be able to read it. I will be able to check via cell phone over the weekend, though. Maybe just some highlights if possible. Wish I had a portable PDF reader.

[Sapphire Blue]

21. .

:kick:

[many a good man]

22. This is BIG!

How do we keep this on the news next Monday? (Sept 11)

This is old news to all of us but its the first time the nation is hearing it. Its the first BIPARTISAN report.

:kick: