Jackass USA today editorial disagrees with 911 panel

[Worst Username Ever]

A 9/11 commission staff report is being cited to argue that the administration was wrong about there being suspicious ties and contacts between Iraq (news - web sites) and al-Qaeda. In fact, just the opposite is true. The staff report documents such links.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=2&u=/usatoday/20040618/cm_usatoday/commissionconfirmslinks

[sniffa]

1. odd

the boston heraLd decried the report for being a partisan attack on the president - a strawman.

funny they shouLd use that description since more 75% of their opinions are strawman arguements.

[Ripley]

2. Well good golly, don't you know...

The people over at USA Today have special Top Secret briefings that they were handed from the CIA that trump whatever classified info the 9/11 panel had!

You silly.

[papau]

12. Stephen J. Hadley is deputy national security adviser to President Bush

:-)

[wryter2000]

3. Good effing grief!

If I hear one more time the fact that Al Zarqawi was operating in northern Iraq cited as proof that Saddam had "ties" to Al Qaeda, I'm going to hurt someone. :argh:

[Ripley]

5. Hee hee!

I say that about every other day nowadays...

...I'm going to hurt someone. :argh:

[Straight Shooter]

6. I'll second that

Wasn't the justification for not taking Zarqawi out, because that would undermine the case for invading Iraq?

Did not the military commanders draw up plans 3 times for attacking and assassinating Zarqawi, only to be nixed by the White House?

If I'm wrong, someone correct me. Otherwise, if someone can provide more comprehensive details, please elaborate. There's so much going on, it's hard to keep up with all the lies and spin. It's like living on the circumference of a tornado.

[Ripley]

7. Does Kerry even know that?

Your point about the plots to kill Zarqawi being nixed? Someone should inform his people...good talking point for him RIGHT NOW.

[Uber Llama]

11. No, you're right

[Hoping4Change]

4. An op-ed by deputy national security adviser Hadley not an

editorial. Big difference.

[Worst Username Ever]

8. I guess I figured op/ed meant opinion/editorial.

[Hoping4Change]

14. In the good old days when democracy meant something

newspapers could print opinion pieces without people automatically assuming the paper endorsed the opinion.

[salin]

9. Huge difference - in terms of "endorsement" of position

none with a column type opinion statement.

[CWebster]

10. Of course USA Today would suddenly be privy to intel

that the investigators had no access to.

Make a couple of calls last night, Dick, to cover your shifty-eyed lies mumbled out of the side of your mouth, while sculking at some undisclosed location?

Cheney's version of the truth: I said so, and no, I don't have to provide the evidence.

[DBoon]

13. Someone needs to document how Saddam treated Islamists

My understanding is that the secular middle east dictators (specifically Saddam & Assad) took vigorous measures to repress Islamic groups, including mass murder.

I hear a story (from a Syrian immigrant to the US) that Assad had set up a fake Islamist conference in a hotel, bombed the hotel (killing everyone inside), then sent messages to the families of those killed saying that their relatives had died for the cause of the Syrian nation.

We need to hear more about this sort of thing - no love lost between these folks.