Athena has dug up this wonderful piece from Captain Ed on the non-cooperation between Osama and Saddam from The Guardian, that great and compliant organ of Republican propaganda (not):
Saddam Hussein’s regime has opened talks with Osama bin Laden, bringing closer the threat of a terrorist attack using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, according to US intelligence sources and Iraqi opposition officials.
The key meeting took place in the Afghan mountains near Kandahar in late December. The Iraqi delegation was led by Farouk Hijazi, Baghdad’s ambassador in Turkey and one of Saddam’s most powerful secret policemen, who is thought to have offered Bin Laden asylum in Iraq.
The Saudi-born fundamentalist’s response is unknown. He is thought to have rejected earlier Iraqi advances, disapproving of the Saddam Hussein’s secular Baathist regime. But analysts believe that Bin Laden’s bolthole in Afghanistan, where he has lived for the past three years, is now in doubt as a result of increasing US and Saudi government pressure.
News of the negotiations emerged in a week when the US attorney general, Janet Reno, warned the Senate that a terrorist attack involving weapons of mass destruction was a growing concern. “There’s a threat, and it’s real,” Ms Reno said, adding that such weapons “are being considered for use.”
Impossible, right? Heh.
There you go again.
I know you want to believe this because if you don’t, then maybe Michael Moore is right…
Here’s what Newsweek said:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040620/nysu011a_1.html
“But commission vice chair Lee Hamilton acknowledged to Newsweek the commissioners had serious differences with the administration. ‘We didn’t have any evidence of collaboration or cooperation,’ Hamilton said flatly. He added that bin Laden’s ties ‘to Iran and Pakistan were certainly stronger than any tie he had to Iraq.'”
But wait, I gotta Guardian article for you!
So Clinton and Reno were lying, John?
Who can imagine such a thing, really.
Once again, no one with integrity would deny that there was rational reason to believe there might be a connection.
Those who deny that there was rational reason to believe it are such rage- and hate-filled and blinkered partisans that it appears that attempting to reason with them is pointless.