Bush said we are fighting the very same people that attacked on us September first?

Question

Why is he trying to rewrite history again? And is he REALLY fighting Bin Laden? Or is he fighting a faction of Al Qaeda that didn't exist before we invaded Iraq?

yupchagee, I am going to need more than just your word on that. I need proof that they are dead.

and until he apoints you as interpreter of what he meant to say, I am just going to go on his words. I am always concerned to see how reps spin their OWN politicians to make it OK to still support your side. SCARY

Butterbar, YES IT IS SO VERY HARD TO GRASP. He said they were the very same people that were responsible for the sept 11 attacks. And they AREN'T. Do you even think it is possible that he chose to word it that way to drum up support for a failing war and strategy? Is it possible that he is being deliberatly mnisleading to trick people into beleving that iraq was responsible for 9/11, AGAIN? Don't be so coy, it doesn't become you.

Answer 1

Bush was correct in saying that we are fighting the very same people in Iraq that attacked us on 9/11---
15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 were Saudi nationals--
Most of the attacks on Americans in Iraq are coming from Saudi nationals--
That's the dirty little secret he inadvertently referred to.

Answer 2

Bush does what Cheney says, and Cheney says theyre the same.

Peace: Have you seen the new reports on how much influence Cheney has had? Apparently going in the back door and having Bush change decisions that have already been made and whatnot.

Bush doesnt care about Bin Laden, he's said so himself. He will just continue to believe Cheney. If Cheney decides there is a link between the UK and Al-Quaeda, then the UK will be attacked next, but it will still be considered the same war by Bush, evidence doesnt factor into it anymore.

Answer 3

Same organization overall, following the same leadership. Is this difficult to understand?

And it's not why we went into Iraq and deposed Saddam. The reasons for that remain the same as they were when he asked Congress for authorization to use military force nearly 5 years ago.

But it was also Bush's vow to fight Al Qaida wherever they were, and they are now in Iraq. And Al Qaida has made Iraq their central battleground against the US.

Is this really so very hard to grasp?

Answer 4

The Al Qaeda that the US is fighting in Iraq IS different than the Al Qaeda that was involved in the 9/11 attacks, they come from different factions. Bush is once again trying to confuse the American people to justify "his" war on terror.

Answer 5

first it was Sept. 11th.
Uh...you been under a rock or what??? Bush has been changing why we are in a war since day one. he may be trying to re-write history cause he knows history books are not going to be kind to him.
Heck no, he is not looking for Bin Laden. If he had or was, Bin Laden would have been a done deal by now.
Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11. so no, he is not fighting Al Qaeda.

Answer 6

He also said Iraq had WMD.

What we're doing over there has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda and everything to do with controlling the flow of oil from that region.

Answer 7

Bin Ladena and Al qaeda and 9/11 are the babies of Bush & Co. You can't argue against power.

Answer 8

APPARENTLY BUSH DOES NOT BELIEVE WHAT HIS OWN PENTAGON IS TELLING HIM...


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.

He characterized the supposed Al-Qaeda-Iraq relationship as "mature" and "symbiotic" in a September 2002 briefing to the chief of staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.

The Feith briefing alleged that the two cooperated in 10 areas, including training, financing and logistics.

But the new report says the US intelligence community had concluded at the time there were "no conclusive signs" of links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and that "direct cooperation ... has not been established" between the two.

Prior to the war there was little public dispute inside the United States over the Bush administration's assertions linking Iraq and bin Laden's group.

But since the invasion, a number of intelligence officials have alleged the White House and its backers ignored their intelligence and "cherry picked" information to support their arguments for a war.

In a radio interview Wednesday Cheney insisted on a prewar link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, saying the group was working in Iraq "before we even arrived on the scene."

"As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq," Cheney told conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

Answer 9

the battle to win hearts and minds has been abandoned in iraq and is now a battle to win the hearts and minds of americans.

this american is sick to death of the lies coming out of the white house.

bush also forgets to mention that most of the foreign born insurgents in iraq are from saudi arabia - who continues to draw a free pass for their involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Answer 10

It was my understanding that the hijackers died when the planes crashed, so I guess it's just more fearmongering propaganda.