Well, if the CIA, National Intelligence Estimate, or 9/11 Commission Report didn't convince you, perhaps you'll be sold after looking into, "Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents Volume 1 "(Daily Kos has a pdf version of the 70 page document on their server- Dailykos.com).The document outlines the findings of researchers who poured over 600,000 documents without finding one link between Sadaam Hussein and the attacks of September 11, 2001. So in essence this document is reaffirming what the CIA and the National Intelligence Estimate told us and our president in 2002, what the 9/11 Commission Report (that our president commissioned) told us in July of 2004, and what the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II report said in September 2006.
This is nothing new, it's only a reminder of how incompetently our president has chosen to allocate our defense dollars and how illogically he has approached the deployment of U.S. troops to the Middle East. He was warned that the war against terrorism would not to be won in Iraq, rather that the battleground was in Al Qaeda hotbed, Afghanistan. Now the U.S. government spends a cool 3 billion a month in Iraq while our economy takes a downward turn. The economny is not stable, Mr. President. We'll hope that the new president will bring some element of reason and rationality back to executive level decision making.
