FLAIT

Originally Posted: June 2004
Final Revision/Posting: Sept. 2004

During the lead up to the war, Bush never said that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Heck, if it was true, Bush would have not only made a big deal about it, but that would have been THE REASON for invading, not WMDs. Just like Afghanistan.

In fact, Bush was forced to admit last year that there was "no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."

So while the country was having this "debate" in 2002 about invading Iraq, Bush failed to correct the myth that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and in fact used the misconception to gain public support for the war (and Republicans called Clinton "slick").

But recently Dick Cheney said that Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent DID meet in Prague, contrary to what the 9/11 commission has reported, and he's turned it into a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11; contrary to what Bush admitted and never even used as a reason for the war.

Huh?

Cheney's excuse is that the commission doesn't have "all the facts." How does he get away with that ("liberal media." Ha!)?

This crooked White House stonewalled the 9/11 commission from the very beginning and refused to hand over all the documents they requested. So of course they "don't have all the facts!"

But if Cheney had information regarding this alleged meeting, why didn't he hand it to the committee when he appeared before them with Bush?

So let me see if I have this straight: Bush and Cheney refuse to hand over documents to the committee, and when they appear before them, they don't hand over whatever information they have regarding this alleged meeting. And when the committee says the meeting didn't take place, Cheney goes on TV and says it did and the committee got it wrong because they didn't have "all the facts."

Yup, sounds like Republican logic to me.

It's obvious as to what's going on:

1. The Committee would actually check out Cheney's "facts."
2. Bush and Cheney care more about spin and manipulation then anything else.
3. Cheney knew that his mindless and gullible base constituents would believe anything he said.
4. The media would perpetuate Cheney's spin.
5. The truth gets muddied.

"Mission Accomplished."

But let's assume that Cheney is right, and Atta did meet with this Iraqi agent. Yea, so? Does that justify an invasion of Iraq? Heck, if we invaded every country that had an agent who met with an al-Quada terrorist, we'd not only have to invade just about every country in the Mid-East, but country's in Africa and Asia as well!

So let me see if I have this one straight: Because of a (fictitious) meeting - one lousy meeting! - between Atta and an Iraqi agent, that justifies invading Iraq, and suffering the enormously high risks, costs, lives, limbs, dollars and consequences that comes with it? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

And yet, we ignore the fact that Bin Laden is Saudi, 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, al-Quaeda gets much of their funding from Saudi's and Saudi Arabia is responsible for this wicked Whabbaism and all these madrassas, which are really terrorist training camps for children.

Yup, sounds like Republican logic to me.

If there were specific and justifiable reasons to invade Iraq which everyone could agree on - such as going into Afghanistan - then why is all this spin taking place?

So the fact that Bush and Cheney are trying SO DESPERATELY - parsing their words, telling us what they said, what they didn't say, what they meant to say - to justify this senseless war, it proves that this was all a lie from the beginning.

Because when you lie, spin, manipulate and mislead a country into a war, you wind up having to lie, spin and manipulate different justifications for it.

And now they're trying to use the Prague meeting to try and justify the war, which, as I've shown, is totally bogus. What will it be next...that al-Quaeda was planning on invading Iraq themselves to steal the oil and use the country as a base camp?

Incredibly, that could very well happen. Great going, Mr. President!