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Sadam and UBL

Post by Ponycat » Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:30 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162247,00.html

Interesting...any bets on how many posts before it turns to Fox News bashing post.

I say 2


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Re: Sadam and UBL

Post by SonomaCat » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:07 pm

Ponycat wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162247,00.html

Interesting...any bets on how many posts before it turns to Fox News bashing post.

I say 2
No bashing required. Fox News is just doing its job.



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Post by iaafan » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:54 pm

This isn't a big breaking news flash. Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard has been saying this for at least two years now.



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Post by urcrackinmeup » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:48 am

I like how that Fox article starts by quoting all democrats as if they are the only ones saying there's no link... how 'bout quoting Colin Powell on Meet the Press... "But I have seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and that awful regime and what happened on 9/11." Here's a link to a Washington Post article that White House counterterrorism director wrote in a memo to C. Rice that no "compelling case" existed for Iraq's involvement in the attacks. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States laid out a detailed body of evidence supporting Kurtz's view.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Jul22.html

I just think Fox is completely one-sided. It's the Rush Limbaugh way of presenting news...very glitzy, entertaining and reporting just the parts they want. If Fox news is all the info you have coming onto your radar screen then your opinion will be very one-sided. I'm not saying Fox is alway wrong, they just present a skewed version of the news.



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Post by Ponycat » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:11 am

Big differance between collaboration with 9/11 attacks and collaboration with Al Queda.


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Post by urcrackinmeup » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:55 am

The article said "that links between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government were weak". It wasn't just talking about the 9/11 attacks.



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Post by SonomaCat » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:05 pm

I'm sure the links between Saddam and AQ were just as strong as those between AQ and any other Islamic country in the world. So, as long as one isn't worried about relative strength of the connection, one could probably make a convenient claim about an AQ link with just about any country they wanted.

That could be a heads-up to Iran or Syria -- we have loose and unconfirmed information ... and we aren't afraid to use it.



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Post by iaafan » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:21 pm

Hayes is just bringing this up again to draw attention away from Rove and his mess.



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