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yeah, saddam should have been left in power. we already know you are with the enemy dan. no need to re-hash your terroristic thoughts from 2001
It's time the M$M quit sugar coating the White House lies that led to the war in Iraq by labeling them 'false pretense'...this was a good old fashion Nazi-style war of aggression...
Book says White House ordered forgery
By MIKE ALLEN | 8/4/08 11:23 PM EST
PoliticoA new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.
The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
The letter’s existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”
The Telegraph story by Con Coughlin (which, coincidentally, ran the day Hussein was captured in his “spider hole”) was touted in the U.S. media by supporters of the war, and he was interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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"Over the next few days, the Habbush letter continued to be featured prominently in the United States and across the globe," Suskind writes. "Fox's Bill O'Reilly trumpeted the story Sunday night on 'The O'Reilly Factor,' talking breathlessly about details of the story and exhorting, 'Now, if this is true, that blows the lid off al Qaeda—Saddam.'"
According to Suskind, the administration had been in contact with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service in the last years of Hussein’s regime, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.
“The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.”
The White House flatly denied Suskind’s account. Tony Fratto, deputy White House press secretary, told Politico: “The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a do ent from Habbush to Saddam is just absurd.”
The White House plans to push back hard. Fratto added: "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify, including the numerous bipartisan commissions that have reported on pre-war intelligence."
Before “The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism,” Suskind wrote two New York Times bestsellers critical of the Bush administration – “The Price of Loyalty” (2004), which featured extensive comments by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, and “The One Percent Doctrine” (2006).
Suskind writes in his new book that the order to create the letter was written on “creamy White House stationery.” The book suggests that the letter was subsequently created by the CIA and delivered to Iraq, but does not say how.
The author claims that such an operation, part of “false pretenses” for war, would apparently cons ute illegal White House use of the CIA to influence a domestic audience, an arguably impeachable offense.
Suskind writes that the White House had “ignored the Iraq intelligence chief’s accurate disclosure that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.
1,000,000 + people dead based on lies, just like I predicted in 2001....
Last edited by Nbadan; 08-05-2008 at 12:02 AM.
yeah, saddam should have been left in power. we already know you are with the enemy dan. no need to re-hash your terroristic thoughts from 2001
Old dan is like a perch (fish). He will take any bait offered, hook, line and sinker.
"saddam should have been left in power"
absolutely, he was no threat to USA, and after 10+ years of sanctions and US attacks, his military was totally castrated, as dubya and ilk knew well. He would a pushover in the oil grab invasion.
He was a center of a stability Middle East, a stability totally destroyed by dubya with no hope of repair. He was a good counterweight and placeholder against Iran.
Susskind's book compares very well as counter-point to all the lies dubya and head spewed for years about Iraq, all of which dumb 's like clanny still believe, don't have the balls enough to admit that dubya snookered them.
Last edited by boutons_; 08-05-2008 at 10:54 PM.
I can claim that the OP actually gets laid once in a while, and just like this guy, I'd be a liar.
So it's not the liars who are the real liars, but the liars who lie about the liars - check!
The Suskind interview with Olberman...
Mike Barnicle Finally Gets A Clue...
gosh... would anybody really care except MSNBC and Dan...
add another book to the pile...
Maybe you'll care more if Pelosi calls the Senate back into session to impeach Cheney for forgery of government do ents...
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