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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Golly, gee, ToeKnee –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You really are struggling with the English
language, huh?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The article posted by Wayne Fox clearly
disputes (with evidence) the claim by Cheney and Bush that Hussein had links to
Al-Qaeda.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Perhaps you should start questioning your
unqualified support for the Bush machine and your evident distaste for the US
Constitution and the civil liberties it affords.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:navy'>*******************************************************<br>
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"*Why* a person does what he does is at least as important as the
objective behavior."<br>
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- Princess Sushitushi (September 10, 2006)<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tony<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 07, 2007
7:25 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Art Deco<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020]
Washington Post: more anti-American bullshit</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Gee <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>,
thanks for your lengthy screed in support of that sociopathic murderer, Saddam
Hussein. Wow, what next? A piece advising us that we really
shouldn't have gone after Adolph Hitler? I mean, golly, all he did was
gas woman and children by the millions.... What was <st1:place w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:place>
thinking? What could Bush have been thinking in stopping a man who threw
his enemies into plastic shredding machines, tortured innocents for sadistic
sport, raped woman to pass the time of day, impoverished the masses in order to
build lavish facilities for himself, and shared the goals of the nut-cake
Muslim faction? I mean really <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>,
you are so right! To HELL with human rights and freedom! Let's all
just stay here and play our video games and sip our latte's while horror reigns
abroad, giggling over its bloody victims.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>You should hang your head in shame you spoiled bastard.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com" title="deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Friday, April 06,
2007 7:12 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [Vision2020] <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> Post:
Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-QaedaDiscounted<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted</span></font></b></strong><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b>Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>By R.
Jeffrey Smith<br>
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
Post Staff Writer<br>
Friday, April 6, 2007; A01</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Captured
Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two
former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly
cooperating with al-Qaeda before the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General Thomas F.
Gimble, also contains new details about the intelligence community's prewar
consensus that the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda figures had only limited
contacts, and about its judgments that reports of deeper links were based on
dubious or unconfirmed information. The report had been released in summary
form in February.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
report's release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing on
Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was
operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the
direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last June.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
is al-Qaeda operating in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>,"
Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the
charge for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>."
Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> forces from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> would "play right into
the hands of al-Qaeda."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Senate
Armed Services Committee Chairman <a
href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000261/">Carl M.
Levin</a> (D-Mich.), who requested the report's declassification, said in a
written statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why the
inspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run by
then-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately written
intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connections
between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
report, in a passage previously marked secret, said Feith's office had asserted
in a briefing given to Cheney's chief of staff in September 2002 that the
relationship between <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and al-Qaeda was "mature" and "symbiotic," marked by shared
interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories, including
training, financing and logistics.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Instead,
the report said, the CIA had concluded in June 2002 that there were few
substantiated contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi officials and had
said that it lacked evidence of a long-term relationship like the ones <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> had forged
with other terrorist groups.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Overall,
the reporting provides no conclusive signs of cooperation on specific terrorist
operations," that CIA report said, adding that discussions on the issue
were "necessarily speculative."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The CIA
had separately concluded that reports of Iraqi training on weapons of mass
destruction were "episodic, sketchy, or not corroborated in other
channels," the inspector general's report said. It quoted an August 2002
CIA report describing the relationship as more closely resembling "two
organizations trying to feel out or exploit each other" rather than
cooperating operationally.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The CIA
was not alone, the defense report emphasized. The Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) had concluded that year that "available reporting is not firm enough
to demonstrate an ongoing relationship" between the Iraqi regime and
al-Qaeda, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But the
contrary conclusions reached by Feith's office -- and leaked to the
conservative Weekly Standard magazine before the war -- were publicly praised
by Cheney as the best source of information on the topic, a circumstance the
Pentagon report cites in documenting the impact of what it described as
"inappropriate" work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Feith has
vigorously defended his work, accusing Gimble of "giving bad advice based
on incomplete fact-finding and poor logic," and charging that the acting
inspector general has been "cheered on by the chairmen of the Senate
intelligence and armed services committees." In January, Feith's successor
at the Pentagon, Eric S. Edelman, wrote a 52-page rebuttal to the inspector
general's report that disputed its analysis and its recommendations for
Pentagon reform.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cheney's
public statements before and after the war about the risks posed by <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> have
closely tracked the briefing Feith's office presented to the vice president's
then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. That includes the
briefing's depiction of an alleged 2001 meeting in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Prague</st1:place></st1:City> between an Iraqi intelligence official
and one of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers as one of eight "Known Iraq-Al
Qaida Contacts."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
defense report states that at the time, "the intelligence community
disagreed with the briefing's assessment that the alleged meeting constituted a
'known contact' " -- a circumstance that the report said was known to
Feith's office. But his office had bluntly concluded in a July 2002 critique of
a CIA report on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
relationship with al-Qaeda that the CIA's interpretation of the facts it cited
"ought to be ignored."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
briefing to Libby was also presented with slight variations to then-Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and then-deputy
national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley. It was prepared in part by someone
whom the defense report described as a "junior Naval Reservist"
intelligence analyst detailed to Feith's office from the DIA. The person is not
named in the report, but Edelman wrote that she was requested by Feith's
office.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
briefing, a copy of which was declassified and released yesterday by Levin,
goes so far as to state that "Fragmentary reporting points to possible
Iraqi involvement not only in 9/11 but also in previous al Qaida attacks."
That idea was dismissed in 2004 by a presidential commission investigating the
Sept. 11 attacks, noting that "no credible evidence" existed to
support it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When a
senior intelligence analyst working for the government's counterterrorism task
force obtained an early account of the conclusions by Feith's office -- titled
"Iraq and al-Qaida: Making the Case" -- the analyst prepared a
detailed rebuttal calling it of "no intelligence value" and taking
issue with 15 of 26 key conclusions, the report states. The analyst's rebuttal
was shared with intelligence officers on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but
evidently not with others.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Edelman
complained in his own account of the incident that a senior Joint Chiefs
analyst -- in responding to a suggestion by the DIA analyst that the
"Making the Case" account be widely circulated -- told its author
that "putting it out there would be playing into the hands of people"
such as then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, and belittled the
author for trying to support "some agenda of people in the building."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But the
inspector general's report, in a footnote, commented that it is
"noteworthy . . . that post-war debriefs of Sadaam Hussein, [former Iraqi
foreign minister] Tariq Aziz, [former Iraqi intelligence minister Mani
al-Rashid] al Tikriti, and [senior al-Qaeda operative Ibn al-Shaykh] al-Libi,
as well as document exploitation by DIA all confirmed that the Intelligence
Community was correct: Iraq and al-Qaida did not cooperate in all categories"
alleged by Feith's office.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From
these sources, the report added, "the terms the Intelligence Community
used to describe the relationship between <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> and al-Qaida were validated,
[namely] 'no conclusive signs,' and 'direct cooperation . . . has not been
established.' "<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Zarqawi,
whom Cheney depicted yesterday as an agent of al-Qaeda in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> before the
war, was not then an al-Qaeda member but was the leader of an unaffiliated
terrorist group who occasionally associated with al-Qaeda adherents, according
to several intelligence analysts. He publicly allied himself with al-Qaeda in
early 2004, after the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
invasion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:italic'>Staff writer Dafna Linzer and staff researcher Julie Tate
contributed to this report.</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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