Why Berg was killed: so Shrub could prove terrorist link to Saddam.

[No2W2004]

Well, Shrub finally came out with the new neocon stratigy.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20040514/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc

(snip)
At a fund-raising lunch in Bridgeton, Missouri, Bush said Zarqawi was an example of the threat posed by the ousted Iraqi leader. "We knew he (Saddam) had terrorist ties. The person responsible for the Berg death, Zarqawi, was in and out of Baghdad prior to our arrival, for example," Bush said.

(snip)
Although Bush administration officials had raised the possibility Saddam helped al Qaeda plan the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Bush eventually said there was no evidence. Bush has previously cited Zarqawi as a link between Saddam and al Qaeda.

[Generator]

1. Yep, see my post, Bush is the terrorist

He let them go about their business.

[dumpster_baby]

12. rumors of a Bush-Berg photoshop?

I heard a rumor of a photoshopping of a still from that video, where Bush's head had been subbed for Zarqawi's head, so it looked like Bush was cutting off Berg's head. Anyone seen this one? Wouldn't that be illegal to make such a photoshop?

[Eric J in MN]

2. Zarqawi is a fundamentalist who hates Saddam for being secular.

Saying that Zarqawi was in Baghdad, therefore he was in cahoots with Saddam, is like saying anyone who visits DC must be in cahoots with the US govt.

[No2W2004]

4. Bingo,

but Shrub made this speech TODAY!!!!

He's STILL spouting this bullshit!

[LittleApple81]

6. You are overestimating the "intelligence" of the wingnuts. They

want to believe, they will believe anything. But I don't think Bush was counting on the Berg father... he seems like the person that will not stay quiet and take this crap being handed down from the misadministration.

[MoonRiver]

3. Hello!

Earth to bush*: nobody's listening. :eyes:

[lovedems]

5. Pretty soon Inannity, Rush, O'Lielly and Faux will be repeating this

ad naseum and by the middle of next week 40% of the population will believe it.

These assholes have no shame.

[neebob]

7. Big surprise

and people like my mother will think it means he was right.

[TheFarseer]

8. Terrorist links are already disproved

because the terrorist are only in there now that there is chaos and a power vacuum. Charges that bush had this kid killed are not out of the realm of possibility but are definitely premature.

[No2W2004]

10. Right, the links have been thoroughly disproved

So why is Shrub making this speech TODAY?

[AlCzervik]

9. He's out campaigning on our dime

oh he's supposed to reimburse us for the expense but i'm sure that gets screwed around with, we are in a huge mess right now and all he does is go out and make stump speeches for contributions. Real presidential.

[NoPasaran]

11. But wait! Saddam's in custody

And the world is SO much safer as a result.

[Eric J in MN]

13. Good point. Anyone who ridiculed Howard Dean for saying

Good point. Anyone who ridiculed Howard Dean for saying the capture of Saddam didn't make the US safer should apologize.

[Skip Intro]

14. So Berg "event" = bush right to invade Iraq

Nobody would buy this as a plot to a UPN show, much less as a justification for the exponentially mounting costs of what bush has done here.

Won't float.

But then, I don't think this was the primary benefit to the regime - justification for invading Iraq, that is. I believe they, the regime, desperately needed something big enough to throw in front of the oncoming train that was/still is the torture scandal. And the Berg event did that, to an extent.

I believe this new effort to proclaim the Berg video = saddam/terrorist ties = right to invade is simply trying to milk a dry teat - if you'll pardon the expression.

The Berg event (a buscho production, imho) is already subsiding, and courts-martial, and probably more pics, are yet to come.

Obvious desperate measures by a desperate gang of criminals. Yes, I mean the bush regime.