rummy un-justifies iraq war
BBC News: Rumsfeld doubts Saddam Laden link
Turns out one of Bush's main [stated] reasons for going to war - that Saddam Hussein's [non-existent] weapons of mass destruction would probably be sold to al Qaeda - was tenuous at best.
Oh well: at least we stopped him from starting to think about trying to make weapons, because maybe Osama bin Laden would have stolen them from him somehow, at some point. That would have been almost as devastating as the weapons and CIA training provided to al Qaeda by the U.S. government in the eighties!
"Yes, there are contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda."
Turns out one of Bush's main [stated] reasons for going to war - that Saddam Hussein's [non-existent] weapons of mass destruction would probably be sold to al Qaeda - was tenuous at best.
Oh well: at least we stopped him from starting to think about trying to make weapons, because maybe Osama bin Laden would have stolen them from him somehow, at some point. That would have been almost as devastating as the weapons and CIA training provided to al Qaeda by the U.S. government in the eighties!
"Yes, there are contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda."
- National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in 2002 (Link)
