[Vision2020] New Senate Report Confirms Bush lied about Iraq Connection al-Qaida, Lied about justification for the war

[Ted Moffett]

Jim et. al.

I heard about the ABC docudrama on terrorism, and the factual errors it
contains.  As long as people know it is fictionalized, that's one thing, but
many may assume it is based on solid vetted historical research.

It is amazing how many US citizens still believe that the 9/11 attacks were
related to Saddam and his supposed connections to Al Qaeda... And disturbing
to witness how easily public opinion can be manipulated, indeed is still
being manipulated, by half truths and falsehoods from the government.

The "Weapons of Mass Distraction" function very well!

Ted Moffett



On 9/11/06, Jim Meyer <m1e2y3e4 at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Ted,
> I am embarrassed that nobody else responded to you.
>
> The current number of Americans killed in Iraq is 2666. The total number
> of casualties of Americans is about 20,000. Every vision2020 member
> should listen to Sen Carl Leven explain the timeline in the report. The
> report is damning even with the redactions. I am sure you can Sen Leven
> on the CSPAN website. You can also find the entire report.
>
> The facts are that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with  911.  There
> were no significant weapons of mass destruction and due diligence would
> have made it obvious even at the time. In 2003, 70% of Americans
> believed there was a link between Saddam and
> 911.(http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-poll-iraq_x.htm).
> Today that figure is still 43%
> (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/iraq.poll/index.html). Meanwhile
> the war profiteers are making a killing, literally and figuratively.
>
> The American people still believe the lie. They believe that Bush's
> illegal war of aggression in Iraq, estimated to have killed between
> 40,000 and 250,000 Iraqi people, not to mention our own people, is
> somehow connected to 911. You may close your ears and eyes, but the lie
> remains. The truth is that our president and his cabinet should be
> impeached, tried for treason, and tried as a war criminal on a multitude
> of levels. And we are NOT safer.....
>
> This past weekend and Monday, with the two-part Disney/ABC docu-drama
> about 911 and Bush's free 15 minute speech about 911 on Monday, the
> propaganda lie will continue. I am glad you are not one of the 43% that
> believe it and I hope other vision2020 members also don't support it.
> Our country will only survive if people wake to the facts. To help
> others wake up, I challenge them to watch this link in
> entirety.http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/41418/ . The anger shown is
> appropriate to the circumstances. If you are any less angry, you are
> either a stooge, a sheep, or lemming.
>
> It is time to get angry. It is not a pleasant thing--but it is time
> because--our country, as we know it, depends on it.
>
> I want to be fair, can anyone give me a rational reason why Bush should
> not be tried for treason? For lying about getting us into a war that
> killed 2666 Americans and wounded 20,000, waging an illegal war of
> aggression, and for not upholding the constitution?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> Today's Topics:
> >    1. New Senate Report On Iraq Gets Scant Attention (Ted Moffett)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:41:39 -0700
> > From: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] New Senate Report On Iraq Gets Scant Attention
> > To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
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> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14739762/
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> > It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that
> prior to
> > the war Saddams 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 Saddams government and al-Qaida.
> >
> > The long-awaited report, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the
> > committee, is a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney
> administrations
> > unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts to link Saddam to
> al-Qaida.
> > The report, two years in the making, comes out amid a series of Bush
> > speeches stressing that pursuing the military effort in Iraq is crucial
> to
> > winning the war on terrorism, and two months before that policy will be
> > tested in midterm elections.
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