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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 534420" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>You mentioned Zarqawi in an earlier post, <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/abu_musab_al-zarqawi.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">GlobalSecurity.org</span> </a>has a pretty good piece on him which confirms not only his earlier movements via Iraq but also his presense in the Kurdish region. It also sez connections to Saddam Huissein are very unlikely. Colin Powell in his <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2730253.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">infamous UN speech</span> </a>reported a connection between Zarqawi and Saddam which with Powell's credibility made this nexus a slam dunk.</p><p></p><p>But now Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Powell's chief of Staff is shedding new light of how the CIA "coooked" the connection in order to justify the war with Iraq. Ray McGovern has written a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110711050508/http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern05192009.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">very good piece</span> </a>of this and Ray is not to be taken lightly. Not only a Army officer but 30 year analyst with the CIA. But this is just further comfirmation of a spin job whose wheels started coming off several years ago like in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040502263.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">April 2007'</span> </a>when the Army declassified a report confirming the lack of connection.</p><p></p><p>Even the hard association with bin Laden didn't really materialize until late 2004' as this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/08/iraq.alqaida1" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">timeline</span></a> shows. But by late 2004', even the CIA was having to admit the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061108222806/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6189795/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">truth</span></a>. I guess you can do that when Cheney's dogs aren't standing over you! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p><p></p><p>Isn't it funny that the Bush adminstration <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080709082429/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">turned down chances</span> </a>to kill Zarqawi but nobody mentions that in public. I guess Vietnam had the myth of the Gulf of Tonkin so Iraq needed it's own equal myths.</p><p></p><p>Some say there is an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110629163506/http://www.counterpunch.org/blum05212005.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">"American Myth Industry"</span></a> and to be honest, I think some of it's employees visit here!</p><p></p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 534420, member: 2189"] You mentioned Zarqawi in an earlier post, [URL='http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/abu_musab_al-zarqawi.htm'][COLOR=red]GlobalSecurity.org[/COLOR] [/URL]has a pretty good piece on him which confirms not only his earlier movements via Iraq but also his presense in the Kurdish region. It also sez connections to Saddam Huissein are very unlikely. Colin Powell in his [URL='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2730253.stm'][COLOR=red]infamous UN speech[/COLOR] [/URL]reported a connection between Zarqawi and Saddam which with Powell's credibility made this nexus a slam dunk. But now Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Powell's chief of Staff is shedding new light of how the CIA "coooked" the connection in order to justify the war with Iraq. Ray McGovern has written a [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20110711050508/http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern05192009.html'][COLOR=red]very good piece[/COLOR] [/URL]of this and Ray is not to be taken lightly. Not only a Army officer but 30 year analyst with the CIA. But this is just further comfirmation of a spin job whose wheels started coming off several years ago like in [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040502263.html'][COLOR=red]April 2007'[/COLOR] [/URL]when the Army declassified a report confirming the lack of connection. Even the hard association with bin Laden didn't really materialize until late 2004' as this [URL='http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/08/iraq.alqaida1'][COLOR=red]timeline[/COLOR][/URL] shows. But by late 2004', even the CIA was having to admit the [URL='http://web.archive.org/web/20061108222806/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6189795/'][COLOR=red]truth[/COLOR][/URL]. I guess you can do that when Cheney's dogs aren't standing over you! :happy-very: Isn't it funny that the Bush adminstration [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20080709082429/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.htm'][COLOR=red]turned down chances[/COLOR] [/URL]to kill Zarqawi but nobody mentions that in public. I guess Vietnam had the myth of the Gulf of Tonkin so Iraq needed it's own equal myths. Some say there is an [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20110629163506/http://www.counterpunch.org/blum05212005.html'][COLOR=red]"American Myth Industry"[/COLOR][/URL] and to be honest, I think some of it's employees visit here! :wink2: [/QUOTE]
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