Bear with me here…I have about a zillion files and once in a while, while I am writing my book, I come across little gems in my scrap book file. This item was posted on a blog moons ago and if you were to click the link, you may have to sign up. I am a member there so it is no big deal to me whatsoever. Anyway…enjoy.
The left and the MSM continually claim that President Bush and Administration deliberately falsely tied Saddam and al-Qaeda together in order to gin up support for the liberation of Iraq. Of course, no such thing ever happened, but the facts haven’t stopped the left and the MSM - it is just something we’ve all learned to live with. The truth is A, the left/MSM view is B and any attempt to convince the left/MSM that they really should use the truth will be resented by the left/MSM. This is why this exchange at the press conference was so wonderful:
Q Mr. President, you have said throughout the war in Iraq and building up to the war in Iraq that there was a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Zarqawi and al Qaeda. A Senate Intelligence Committee report a few weeks ago said there was no link, no relationship, and that the CIA knew this and issued a report last fall. And, yet, a month ago you were still saying there was a relationship. Why did you keep saying that? Why do you continue to say that? And do you still believe that?
THE PRESIDENT: The point I was making to Ken Herman’s question was that Saddam Hussein was a state sponsor of terror, and that Mr. Zarqawi was in Iraq. He had been wounded in Afghanistan, had come to Iraq for treatment. He had ordered the killing of a U.S. citizen in Jordan. I never said there was an operational relationship. I was making the point that Saddam Hussein had been declared a state sponsor of terror for a reason, and, therefore, he was dangerous.
The broader point I was saying — I was reminding people was why we removed Saddam Hussein from power. He was dangerous. I would hope people aren’t trying to rewrite the history of Saddam Hussein — all of a sudden, he becomes kind of a benevolent fellow. He’s a dangerous man. And one of the reasons he was declared a state sponsor of terror was because that’s what he was. He harbored terrorists; he paid for families of suicide bombers. Never have I said that Saddam Hussein gave orders to attack 9/11. What I did say was, after 9/11, when you see a threat, you’ve got to take it seriously. And I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein — as did Congress, as did the United Nations. I firmly believe the world is better off without Saddam in power, Martha.
That is a nice little smackdown of a foolish MSMer - and please note how the MSM just spouted a series of leftwing talking points and placed a question mark at the end of it. I don’t think most of the MSMers even realise what they are saying anymore - its just become a rote-memorizaton of the talking points they received that morning in the mail and they just parrot them unthinkingly. Be really cool to get a hold of the DNC’s fax and e mail service and send out “the President needs to explain why he made the connection between burritos and high gas prices” as a talking point and watch the MSM run with it for a news cycle or two before they figure it out.
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