How many Americans still believe the lie about a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Question

Cheney keeps repeating the lie, but how many Americans still believe it?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/344/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqqaeda

Pentagon report says no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda
Fri Apr 6, 11:46 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) -Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.

A two-page resume of the report was published in February, but on Friday the Pentagon declassified the whole 120-page document.

According to the inspector general of the US Defense Department, information obtained after Saddam's fall confirmed the prewar position of the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon intelligence that the Iraqi government had had no substantial contacts with Al-Qaeda.

This position was shored up by interrogations of Saddam, the former Iraqi president and other top officials captured by the US-led coalition forces in Iraq, the report said.

It contradicts a strong argument for the invasion made by the administration of President George W. Bush that Baghdad had a working relationship with Al-Qaeda.

The network, based in Afghanisation and led by Osama bin Laden, was behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States in which almost 3,000 people were killed.

The report noted that the office of then-undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith, one of the foremost advocates for invading Iraq after the 2001 attacks, had ignored the CIA's position.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14728447/

Senate report: No Saddam, al-Qaida link
Long-awaited analysis also finds that anti-Saddam group misled U.S.

Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET Sept 8, 2006
WASHINGTON - There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report issued Friday on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.

Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.

The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.

The 400-page report comes at a time when Bush is emphasizing the need to prevail in Iraq to win the war on terrorism while Democrats are seeking to make that policy an issue in the midterm elections.

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.”

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam’s government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the committee, said the long-awaited report was “a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration’s unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts” to link Saddam to al-Qaida.

The administration, said Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., top Democrat on the committee, “exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading a large majority of Americans to believe — contrary to the intelligence assessments at the time — that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks.”

Answer 1

The only connections were the "Q" in both of Ira"Q" and Al "Q"aeda. I just think the nut case righty's low level of education has them confused with the Pentagon reports and what Bush himself has admitted to.

Answer 2

The Bush Administration stated before the UN General Assembly (through Sec. of State Colin Powell) that there was no known connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. I've never actually heard Cheney say there was a connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda. I've heard him say there is a connection NOW between the insurgency and al-Qaeda. I have a hard time believing the Vice President would repeatedly say something that was denied publicly (at the UN) by the same administration years earlier.

Answer 3

okay
1. It was stated that the Sadam regime was sympathetic to Al Qaeda and intel suggested there might be a link. They were never held responsible for 9/11.

2. If they had no link, I wonder how they popped up so quickly in Iraq after the US took military action. You think they used the airport?

3. The case for the war was actually about the WMDs. This was incorrect intel. Not just intel from the US I might add. This was intel collected from SEVERAL nations. There was no lie, and Congress was given the EXACT SAME INTEL to look at. And they voted to allow military action.

Answer 4

The truth is, Al Qaeda has members of it's terrorist
organization spread thru out middle east countries,
like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq & Saudi Arabia.

Towards the end of his reign, Saddam actually denounced
Al Qaeda. And recently, George Bush admitted there
was no connection & mistakes were made.

It's hard to believe at this late date, with access to so many
various news sources, people still admit their ignorance.
As for Cheney, I've seen too many spilt screens of him
saying one thing on the right, & complete opposite on the left.
He has no credibility.

Answer 5

The Republicans decide for to apply the method of repeating the comparable lies repeatedly and want that at last their sheep will advance into so used to listening to it and that they're going to ultimately have self assurance it. type of like whilst they save asserting Barack Obama is a muslim. the guy is a christian and has been for his finished life.

Answer 6

The so called LIE is coming from both sides! Read Hillary Clintons 2003 memo to code pink. Along with Kennedy, Biden, Dodd, Reid, etc. etc. Before they voted for the war, they did their own private investagtion using their OWN PEOPLE. The conclusion was Saddam had WMD's and Zarqawi was in Iraq given not only medical attention but a section of Northern Iraq so as to train Al Qaeda. These are not Bush/Chenny documents, these are the Democrats documents they complied from their own investagation. The trouble with far left wing Liberals as yourself; you show an incredible amount of stupidity getting sucked in by propaganda! This so called LIE was also believed to be true by Russian, Japanese, British, Austrailian, French, German, and Chinese intellegence! Clinton let 5 oversea bombings and the 1993 WTC bombing go by without doing a damn thing! Read Bin laden's notes; where he states, after Somolia, he new America had NO STOMACH for a fight! And you sir are living proof of his prediction! Try not hating so much, and letting the far left liberal pukes sublimally mind f*ck that cell you call a brain.

Answer 7

I would like to point out that the president never said Saddam was responsible or had any part in 911. However, I think the president has used the term "war on terror" which is a broad term to encompass Al Quada, Iraq, Iran, and general terrorism in the middle east.

Answer 8

Doesn't matter. Saddam was a horrible leader, murdering
his own people in ways too terrible to mention. Someone
needed to put him away, and George Bush was the Hero
here and not afraid to challenge him. Saddam did have
WMD tho the inspectors did not find them (as Saddam put
them all on "passenger" planes and sent them to Syria). Bush
set out to fight terrorists and Saddam clearly terrorized
and murdered millions of people. Enough said????? Be
glad there's one less terrorist tyrant dictator in the world.

Answer 9

It is clear that you get your information from liberal blogs and news media. Documents fond by our military state that there were connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam' sons. Was there a direct connection with Saddam and 9/11? No one knows: if there is no one has fond it yet. Neither Bush or Cheney has said that there was. Just like the W.M.D.s just because they were not fond does not mean they did not exist.

Answer 10

About 30% or so - just a guess but I'm counting the Bushies in on this one. Though it's beyond me why their heads don't explode when on the same day Cheney is on Meet The Press making the connection once again, the White House is releasing an official statement saying there never was any connection. Do their heads twirl around like that girl in The Exorcist or is it more a back and forth swivel like a tennis match?