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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Do you have a cite for this that isn't one of your own posts.
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It is a stretch to say that Bush blamed 9/11 on Saddam....but he did say that we would not only retaliate against the terrorists...but any country that harbors terrorists.
And that gave the neo-cons all they needed to start planning for regime change in Iraq. Within a week, the PNAC was calling for the invasion of Iraq.
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.” It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States. But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm
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And later the DoD created its own intel office to find the connection between Saddam and al Queda, even though none existed. By 2003, the DoD Office of Special Plans "intel" was used to justify the invasion...and according to the later DoD IG investigation, it was bogus.
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the Pentagon's inspector general issued a report that concluded that Feith's office "developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
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