This is it. Proof that a vote for Bush is a vote for the Terrorists

[Generator]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2100549/

The second news story that heaves more burdens on the president comes from an NBC News broadcast by Jim Miklaszewski on March 2. Apparently, Bush had three opportunities, long before the war, to destroy a terrorist camp in northern Iraq run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al-Qaida associate who recently cut off the head of Nicholas Berg. But the White House decided not to carry out the attack because, as the story puts it:
The administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

The implications of this are more shocking, in their way, than the news from Abu Ghraib. Bush promoted the invasion of Iraq as a vital battle in the war on terrorism, a continuation of our response to 9/11. Here was a chance to wipe out a high-ranking terrorist. And Bush didn't take advantage of it because doing so might also wipe out a rationale for invasion.

But the problem, from Bush's perspective, was that this was the only tangible evidence of terrorists in Iraq. Colin Powell even showed the location of the camp on a map during his famous Feb. 5 briefing at the U.N. Security Council. The camp was in an area of Iraq that Saddam didn't control. But never mind, it was something. To wipe it out ahead of time might lead some people—in Congress, the United Nations, and the American public—to conclude that Saddam's links to terrorists were finished, that maybe the war wasn't necessary. So Bush let it be.

In the two years since the Pentagon's first attack plan, Zarqawi has been linked not just to Berg's execution but, according to NBC, 700 other killings in Iraq. If Bush had carried out that attack back in June 2002, the killings might not have happened. More: The case for war (as the White House feared) might not have seemed so compelling. Indeed, the war itself might not have happened.

And then if you want the icing on the cake:

Lookie today:
Bush Says Zarqawi Killed Berg, Cites Saddam 'Ties'
By Caren Bohan

MEQUON, Wis. (Reuters) - President Bush ( on Friday blamed al Qaeda supporter Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for beheading American Nicholas Berg and cited him as an example of Saddam Hussein sites)'s "terrorist ties" before the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Bush's revival of accusations linking Saddam to terrorism comes as the president faces growing doubts among Americans over his Iraq policy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=703&e=7&u=/nm/20040514/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc

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He is a traitor. Case closed.

[Generator]

1. kick dammit I have links not just a theory about a white chair

[DUreader]

2. It is absurdly funny the way we jump on every new story...

when there is clear evidence piled in old reports that is in fact

damning for w*.


The only conclusion I can draw is massive media complicity

they will claim 'but we did report it'

Stuff gets reported once or twice and then swamped with the

latest b.s. It is a brilliant way of covering up, plotting in the open

and preserving peoples notion that we have a free press

Free to propagandize

[City Lights]

3. Begala brought this up today on Crossfire.

nofacts had the gall to furiously dismiss it because Miklaszewski - get this - didn't name his source.

[ibegurpard]

4. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Nofacts dissing someone for not revealing their source??
The irony is the one bright spot in conservative rule.

[oblivious]

5. Here are some related links

Here is a very comprehensive, well documented article you may have read:
<snip>
Since September 2001, Ansar al-Islam has grown in size, incorporating Al Qaeda fighters who fled Afghanistan in the wake of the US bombings. (Christian Science Monitor, 15 March 2002) Revealed by Seymour Hersh, "an unknown number" of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters "were flown to safety" in a US sponsored airlift organised by Pakistan's Military and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of these Mujahideen fighters were evacuated to Kashmir, where they joined Al Qaeda and ISI supported Islamic terrorist groups. While there is no firm evidence, one suspects that some of the Mujahideen fighters may also have fled from Afghanistan to other countries (eg. Northern Iraq), with the tacit approval of the Pentagon.

Northern Iraq -which falls in "the no fly zone"-- is virtually a US protectorate. US military and intelligence observers stationed in the Kurdish region have turned a blind eye to the influx of Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan, as well as to the various acts of terrorism committed in the Kurdish region. According to one report «Al Qaida affiliates coordinating the movement of people, money and supplies for Ansar al-Islam have been operating freely in the capital." (Midland Independent, 6 February 2003). In all likelihood, Ansar al-Islam, which is also integrated by Afghan-Arabs, is supported through the same covert US intelligence channels as other Al Qaeda related organisations in Central Asia and the Middle East. <end snip>

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO302B.html
(more links within that excellent article)


Also read Robert Scheer:
The main evidence presented by the secretary of State was a satellite photo of a forlorn outpost, allegedly linked to Hussein and Al Qaeda and which Powell claims is in the business of producing chemical weapons. However, the camp is outside the area controlled by Hussein and is in the northern Kurdish region protected by U.S. and British warplanes. It is run by the Islamic fundamentalist group Ansar al-Islam, which has a history of opposing both the secular Hussein and his equally secular rivals in the dominant Kurdish group, one of whose leaders was assassinated Monday.

Later it was revealed that the United States had had this camp under surveillance for months and could have taken it out on one of many recent bombing runs.

Over the weekend, 20 foreign reporters finally got to visit the camp and found a dilapidated collection of shacks without indoor plumbing or the electrical capacity to produce the weapons in question.

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-scheer11feb11,0,4491596.column

[gulfcoastliberal]

6. I've been waiting for this post

Thank you. It's so infuriating that the Bush* cabal ignored this Al-Queda figure to keep up apearnces for the illegal war. Really gives credence to those who figure AQ as division of the cabal.

[ithacan]

7. As I've been saying all along:

A vote for Bush is a vote for the terrorists!!

[Cleita]

8. ...

:kick:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. You've gotta be shitting me.

How dumb do they think we are? Those bastards were in *Kurdish* controlled areas! They wanted nothing to do with Saddam. What is this new nonsense? Stupid gibberish.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. But were there any white chairs involved?

/kidding

:kick:

This is vitally important. Proves treason or at the very least condoning Al Quaida and its operations.

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13