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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:35:26 -0600, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> skimming through the news at lunch indicates you are at least
> partially wrong - the commission is not saying there is a link between
> al-Qaeda and Iraq. At all.
>
> ``Our position is firm, unchanged and committed to our previous
> finding,'' said Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana. ``We have
> not discovered collaboration-cooperation between al-Qaida and Iraq in
> general terrorist activities across the world, against the United
> States.''
>
> the above quote from a commission spokeperson was found at
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Sept-11-Commission.html
>
> I do seem to recall that the news stories that covered the divergence
> between perceptions of Fox viewers and actual events cited statements
> by the president but hey... let me see if I can substantiate that. I
> think that I think Bush is a liar because of stories like this but I
> suppose it is just barely possible that I remember wrong because I
> think Bush is a liar... It will take a little more digging than I have
> time for right now to be sure but I *will* look. It should be in the
> archives actually, I posted the article at the time.
>
> Dana
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:13:09 -0400, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "The vice president critiqued some press coverage of the staff report. He
> > did not criticize the commission's work."
> >
> > That line pretty much sums it up, the commission and Cheney are both
> > criticizing the press reports not the commission's findings, the commission
> > did find links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, just not with regard to Sept 11th.
> >
> > The media always claims the administration claimed Iraq helped them plan the
> > attacks, but I don't recall the administration ever saying that, only that
> > Saddam did allow some Al Qaeda to live and operate from Iraq, these are
> > items the commission's report never denies as that is out of the scope of
> > their investigation.
> >
> > They are the 9/11 commission, not the Al Qaeda/Iraq link commission.
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:21 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > From this morning's Washington Post:
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32309-2004Jul6.html
> >
> > 9/11 Panel Defends Intelligence
> > Commissioners Had Access to Same Sources as Cheney
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