The Daily Background

Tony Snow today, on links between Iraq and al Qaeda:

“The fact is the president made it clear before the State of the Union in 2002 that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and September 11. So I’m afraid what’s happened there is that George Tenet may have been referring to something that has been misreported or at least twisted by people with political motives, but there has been no attempt to try to link Saddam to September 11.”

Let’s hop in a time machine. Said staunch Iraq war defender and neo-con celebrity Richard Perle, less than a week after 9/11:

“Even if we cannot prove to the standard that we enjoy in our own civil society they are involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama bin Laden.”

Tenet also claims in his book that Perle told him right after 9/11 “Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility.”

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