by Iroquois » Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:53 am
Ok, just for fun, first read this...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>(CBS) When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts, left town without doing interviews, calling the report a rehash of unfounded partisan allegations.<br><br>Its statements like this one, made Feb. 5, 2003, by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell that have become so controversial, implying Iraq was linked to terror attacks.<br><br>"Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associated collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants," Powell said.<br><br>But after 2 1/2 years of reviewing pre-war intelligence behind closed doors, the lead Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, who voted for the Iraq War, says the Bush administration pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.<br><br>"The absolute cynical manipulation, deliberately cynical manipulation, to shape American public opinion and 69 percent of the people, at that time, it worked, they said 'we want to go to war,'" Rockefeller told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. "Including me. The difference is after I began to learn about some of that intelligence I went down to the Senate floor and I said 'my vote was wrong.'"<br><br>Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.<br><br>Does Rockefeller stands by his view, even if it means that Saddam Hussein could still be in power if the United States didn't invade?<br><br>"Yes. Yes. [Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there," Rockefeller said. "He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about."<br><br>Republicans say there was flawed intelligence to be sure, but they insist there was no attempt to mislead the public.<br><br>"In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good look at the intelligence we had and they came to the very same conclusions about what was going on," White House Spokesman Tony Snow said.<br><br>(C)MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->URL: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/09/eveningnews/main1990644.shtml">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...0644.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>...then this...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>The media failed to tell you these events<br>September 9th, 2006<br><br>By this time you all heard that Saddam had no link to al-Qaeda report, but there are two events happened at the same time, which I couldnt find on the western media.<br><br>One day before the release of this report, Aliraqnews said the following:<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br> There was a conference in Ammman Jordan, among 295 Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders none of them is a member of Al-Qaida or Ansar Al-Islam, preparing for the reconciliation conference, and the conference came with this statement:<br><br> We demand the release of Saddam Hussein and to include Baathists in the reconciliation conference as a condition for the achievement of security and stability, not because we are loyalists, but to close this file.<br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>[Remember..? James Baker met the Sunni leaders few days ago (see: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100522_pf.html)">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...2_pf.html)</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END-->]<br><br>The second event came for Arabic newspaper Al-Watan:<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br> Request from Saudi Arabia and the US: News of Yemen, Qatar negotiating for the return of the former Iraqi regimes rule<br><br> Intensive diplomacy carried out by Saudi Arabia, on regional and international levels to prevent the domination of Iran on the region after the defeat by Israel in the recent war on Lebanon and Hezbollah, which is considered by Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, politically a strategic victory for Iran and Syria, and threaten security and stability in these countries.<br><br> The White House to negotiate indirectly with the leaders of the Baath Party and the former Iraqi regime to persuade them to return to the government and headed by President / Saddam Hussein as the only one capable of settle the situation to what it was before the invasion. <br></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>Coincidently?<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->URL: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/09/09/the-media-failed-to-tell-you-these-events/">www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/...se-events/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>