Bush: Al Qaeda/Hussein "Work in Concert"

[RedSock]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3206-2002Sep25?language=printer

Bush Asserts That Al Qaeda Has Links to Iraq's Hussein
President Cites Potential Cooperation as Concern
By Mike Allen
Thursday, September 26, 2002; Page A29

President Bush asserted a link yesterday between Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the al Qaeda terrorist network, saying he fears they will join forces and are already virtually indistinguishable.

"The danger is, is that they work in concert," Bush said. "The danger is, is that al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world."

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Any more blatant examples?

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1. bush wouldn't know work if it bit him in the ass

but he sure knows fear.

as fdr sort of said, we have nothing to fear but someone who knows only fear.

[sistersofmercy]

2. Note the reporter is claiming Saddam/Al Qaeda link, not Georgie Boy!

Not what Georgie's saying exactly, oh yes, one could "imply a different meaning" but "that's not what was said."
What he said can be translate differently by the listener, it's vagueness, one could argue a capacity to extension was his desire and determination to do so.
Just food for thought!

[LoZoccolo]

3. Even when he said there was no 9/11-Iraq connection...

...yesterday or whatever, he still said there was an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. W on 09/26/02 "You can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam"

"Both of them need to be dealt with," Bush told reporters at the White House. "You can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/25/us.iraq.alqaeda/

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5. no wonder we can't find either of them

if he can't even distinguish between a beard and a mustache, ....

[sistersofmercy]

7. "Both need to be dealt with" that's your prelude, full quote

doesn't mean what you're thinking.

[Stephanie]

6. Some subliminable ones

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

October 7, 2002
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
Remarks by the President on Iraq
Cincinnati Museum Center - Cincinnati Union Terminal
Cincinnati, Ohio

We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

January 28, 2003
President Delivers "State of the Union"
The U.S. Capitol

With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region. And this Congress and the America people must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes. (Applause.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/iraq/20030501-15.html

May 1, 2003
President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln
At Sea Off the Coast of San Diego, California

The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 -- and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men -- the shock troops of a hateful ideology -- gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11th would be the "beginning of the end of America." By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy this nation's resolve, and force our retreat from the world. They have failed. (Applause.)

<snip>

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. (Applause.)

In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th -- the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. (Applause.)


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030907-1.html

September 7, 2003
President Addresses the Nation
Address of the President to the Nation
The Cabinet Room

<snip>For a generation leading up to September the 11th, 2001, terrorists and their radical allies attacked innocent people in the Middle East and beyond, without facing a sustained and serious response. The terrorists became convinced that free nations were decadent and weak. And they grew bolder, believing that history was on their side. Since America put out the fires of September the 11th, and mourned our dead, and went to war, history has taken a different turn. We have carried the fight to the enemy. We are rolling back the terrorist threat to civilization, not on the fringes of its influence, but at the heart of its power.

This work continues. In Iraq, we are helping the long suffering people of that country to build a decent and democratic society at the center of the Middle East. Together we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions. This undertaking is difficult and costly -- yet worthy of our country, and critical to our security.

The Middle East will either become a place of progress and peace, or it will be an exporter of violence and terror that takes more lives in America and in other free nations. The triumph of democracy and tolerance in Iraq, in Afghanistan and beyond would be a grave setback for international terrorism. The terrorists thrive on the support of tyrants and the resentments of oppressed peoples. When tyrants fall, and resentment gives way to hope, men and women in every culture reject the ideologies of terror, and turn to the pursuits of peace. Everywhere that freedom takes hold, terror will retreat.

[sistersofmercy]

8. Ok I've got you ksome answers.

1. Iraq/Al Qaeda connection only, Saddam statement emotional plea.

2. "Saddam aids and protects terrorists..." Saddam allowed ???? al-Awari???, sorry can't remember name but Osama's 2nd in commmand to receive medical tx in Iraq. He was booted tres vite.

"Imagine...." part can be chalked up to speculation on faulty intelligence.

3. "We've removed an ally of Al Qaeda" Yes, the coalition did but Ansar al Islam, the extension of Al Qaeda, was operating in Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq within the NO-Fly Zone. Operatives of Ansar al Islam have been captured and claimed no link to Saddam. Also note Iraqi National Congress had a base in Kurdis controlled Northern Iraq.

4. No mention of Saddam, he has become insignificant, only the concept of tyranny remains.

[alfredo]

9. Someone ought to tell that butthole

that they were enemies before our invasion. thanks bush.

[sistersofmercy]

10. HA! Funny! But unfortunately he knows that's why the careful language.

[sistersofmercy]

11. Let's bring this subject full front and debate from the right perspective

Deception with word association games.

[paulsbc]

12. he really believes that crap

he has been completely snowballed by someone? puppet government?