Why do Bush supporters think an Iraqi named CURVEBALL has more credibility than the Pentagon?

Question

The Pentagon concluded that Saddam had

NO TIES TO AL QAEDA
NO WMD
NO CONNECTION TO 9/11

But the rightwingers still cling to the lies of an Iraqi operative named CURVEBALL instead of accepting the truth.

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

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.”

The chairman of the committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said it has long been known that prewar assessments of Iraq “were a tragic intelligence failure.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqqaeda

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/344/

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.

Answer 1

To most people, credibility = based in facts.

To Bush supporters, credibility = says whatever we already decided we wanted to hear.

Why would his supporters be any different than he is?

Answer 2

I don't know what you're referring to.

From the moment we invaded Iraq, everyone knew it had nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11. This is not "classified information" Everyone in the world knew it.

We invaded Iraq only to look for WMD. And it's old news that there were none. Our intelligence failed. We blew it.

However, it was almost unanimous in Congress to invade Iraq to find the WMD, Everyone was at fault.

You're "exposing" really old news. Didn't you read the newspapers back then?

This is all years old & all of Congress (Dems & Repubs) goofed. So what?

Answer 3

Have no clue about your curveball but I do know what you are saying about there not being any connection is wrong. Saddam even admitted in his trial that he and 9/11 was connected to Al Qaeda. Good try.

Answer 4

WMDs found in Iraq and a captured general of Saddam told that the majority of them were shipped to Syria. Guess that blows your BS out of the water Libby.

Answer 5

Confirmation bias, Curveball told them what they want to hear, so they listen to them. He received a Burn Notice for his deception, it's too bad others don't heed it.

Answer 6

You're clearly too young to know. If you know how, go read about what happened back then and you will see that the whole world thought that Saddam had all that and more. This is really old stuff.

Answer 7

Iraq used WMD on the Kurds and Iranians. Al Qaida had training camps in Iraq pre 9-11. Are you still mourning the loss of your beloved Sadam?

Answer 8

And liberals still cling to the lies of people like Nancy Pelosi and Hilliary Clinton.

Answer 9

Are you a Bathist? If not, Saddam would have killed you and raped your sisters and mother in a heartbeat...

Answer 10

Let me jump into my time machine and see how I answered this question three years ago.