Question for Conservatives who think Iraq was involved in 9/11?

Question

Are you members of the "Flat Earth" Society?

Answer 1

I stole this from wikipedia.

The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission, declassified Defense Department report[3] as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of Saddam Hussein ties to al-Qaeda.

Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to factual evidence. On April 29, 2007, former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said on 60 Minutes that the Bush Administration "could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaida for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period."

The Senate Report discussed the possibility of Saddam offering al-Qaeda training and safe-haven, but confirmed the CIA's conclusion that there was no evidence of operational cooperation between the two.

the joint FBI-INS-police PENTBOM investigation, the FBI program of voluntary interviews and numerous other post-9-11 inquiries, together comprising probably the most comprehensive criminal investigation in history—chasing down 500,000 leads and interviewing 175,000 people -- has turned up no evidence of Iraq's involvement; nor has the extensive search of post-Saddam Iraq by the Kay and Duelfer commission and US troops combing through Saddam’s computers.

While some contacts between agents of Saddam's government and members of al-Qaeda have been alleged, the consensus of experts and analysts has held that those contacts never led to an "operational" relationship. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that there was only one actual meeting between representatives of the Baathist regime and representatives of al-Qaeda. This single meeting took place in the Sudan in 1995, and the Iraqi representative, who is in custody and has been cooperating with investigators, said that after the meeting he "received word from his IIS chain-of-command that he should not see bin Ladin again."

In the summer of 2004, the 9/11 Commission concluded that "to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States."[20][21][22]

In addition, Bush received on 21 September 2001 a classified Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), indicating the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks and that "there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda."[25]

On March 21, 2006, Bush sought to distance himself from the allegation of any link. He said: "First, just if I might correct a misperception, I don’t think we ever said — at least I know I didn’t say that there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein."[31] Bush reaffirmed the White House position in even stronger terms in a press conference on 21 August 2006. When asked what the connection was between Iraq and the September 11th attacks, Bush replied, "Nothing.... Nobody has ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq."[32]
Opponents of his Iraq policy charged[citation needed] that his statement was inconsistent with his letter to Congress of March 21, 2003[33] and a minority (Democrat) staff report by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform claimed that "in 125 separate appearances, they [Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice] made ... 61 misleading statements about Iraq's relationship with al-Qaeda."[34]
Vice President Cheney had told Meet the Press on December 9, 2001, that Iraq was harboring Abdul Rahman Yasin, a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,[35] and repeated the statement in another appearance on September 14, 2003, saying "We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaida sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaida organization. We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in '93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of '93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven."[36] and once again in an interview with National Public Radio in January, 2004, stating that there was "overwhelming evidence" of a relationship between Saddam and al-Qaida based on evidence including Iraq's purported harboring of Yasin.

Answer 2

I believe Iraq was involved with terrorism - and that's enough for me. Without defining terrorism, I believe gassing your own citizens and paying rewards for slaughtering innocent men, women and children suffices.
Apparently, you do not want to confront terrorism - much like Spain, France and much of the rest of the world - and that's what the terrorists are banking on.
Keep up the good work.

Answer 3

I don't know who would think that Iraq still was involved in 9/11....I mean even our own government knows they weren't

Answer 4

i don't know anyone who thinks that, that is a tired old issue that was put to rest a long time ago, but gaging by your 'question' you are really just making a statement on your viewpoints.

Answer 5

The folks like that here in Kansas sure are, and they "don't believe" in evolution, climate change, or gas price gouging.

Answer 6

And Germany didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. So Normandy was a big mistake, too.

Answer 7

LMAO!!

no they are members of the "4 footed insect" society

LOL

Answer 8

I love how flag burners play this one.

IVE NEVER SEEN EVEN ONE PERSON ON ya MAKE THAT CONNECTION.

How is it that you people are so dense? Iraq violated UN mandates. The UN should have taken care of the problem but they didnt have the juice.

It was voted on and agreed upon. Every intelligence community in the world suspected WMDs. After all, he DID have them, he used them. The US supplied him with them in the 80s and he developed more.

I also love how you people claim to know so much about Iraq but never step foot on the soil? You turn on CNN and suddenly you are experts. Hilarious! This says more about you than anything else could....

Answer 9

No!

Where are you from? Mars?