Matthew Rothschild
Kay's Admission, Bush's Double Cross
Mon Jan 26 14:14:16 2004
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Kay's Admission, Bush's Double Cross
http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx012604.html

Over the weekend, eight more U.S. soldiers died in Iraq. Now more than 500 Americans have lost their lives in George W. Bush's needless war.

Thousands more have been injured, and the CIA warns of a possible civil war ahead. Increasingly, the resistance is coming from indigenous Islamic forces, not leftovers of the Baath regime or foreign terrorists, as Bush continues to falsely claim.

Meanwhile, the major rationale for invading Iraq is more discredited than ever.

David Kay, whose work Bush cited in his State of the Union Address, resigned four days after that speech, saying that Saddam Hussein had gotten rid of his weapons of mass destruction prior to the war.

Gone were the tons of sarin.

Gone the kettles of botulism.

Gone the vials of anthrax.

Gone the mobile biological labs.

Gone the hiding of weapons in Syria.

Gone the nukes.

Actually, only Dick Cheney was so brazen to say, prior to the war, that Saddam actually had a nuclear weapon.

Kay says Iraq was nowhere near getting its nuclear act together, trailing behind Iran and Libya, and both those countries were behind North Korea.

So the "grave" and "urgent" and "unique" threat that Bush repeatedly said Saddam posed actually wasn't so grave or urgent, and wasn't unique at all.

If I were the parent or the child or the husband or the wife of one of those 500 American troops who died for Bush's lies, I would despise this President and this Vice President who took my loved one away under false pretenses and for ulterior motives.

The pain of these families will never heal.

Bush double-crossed them, and they--and their proud soldier--paid the price.

-- Matthew Rothschild - 1/26/04
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No. 851-03
IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2003

DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections

News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.

A letter was sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Oct. 27, 2003, from Douglas J. Feith, under secretary of defense for policy, in response to follow-up questions from his July 10 testimony. One of the questions posed by the committee asked the department to provide the reports from the intelligence community to which he referred in his testimony before the committee. These reports dealt with the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.

The letter to the committee included a classified annex containing a list and description of the requested reports, so that the committee could obtain the reports from the relevant members of the intelligence community.

The items listed in the classified annex were either raw reports or products of the CIA, the National Security Agency or, in one case, the Defense Intelligence Agency. The provision of the classified annex to the Intelligence Committee was cleared by other agencies and done with the permission of the intelligence community. The selection of the documents was made by DoD to respond to the committee’s question. The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.

Individuals who leak or purport to leak classified information are doing serious harm to national security; such activity is deplorable and may be illegal.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html

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