Rumsfeld Sees Lack of Proof for Qaeda-Hussein Link

[papau]

Interesting how "Rumsfeld Sees Lack of Proof" is followed by a second Rumsfield where he says he never disagrees with the CIA and that the CIA now says Iraq folks were talking to bad folks and that we will never know "beyond a reasonable doubt"! :-)


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/politics/05rumsfeld.html
October 5, 2004
THE DEFENSE SECRETARY
Rumsfeld Sees Lack of Proof for Qaeda-Hussein Link
By THOM SHANKER

efense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he had seen no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, although he tempered his comment by noting that stark disagreements on that issue remained among American intelligence analysts.

"I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over the period of a year in the most amazing way," Mr. Rumsfeld said when asked about ties between Mr. Hussein and the terror network run by Osama bin Laden. Senior administration officials cited the existence of ties between them as a rationale for war on Iraq.

"Second, there are differences in the intelligence community as to what the relationship was," Mr. Rumsfeld said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."

Relationships among terrorists and terrorist networks are complicated to track, Mr. Rumsfeld said, because "in many cases, they cooperate not in a chain of command but in a loose affiliation, a franchising arrangement almost."<snip>

[bushisanidiot]

1. Oopsie Daisy! Sorry we sent your sons and daughters to die.

but how about that tax cut??