Zakaria destroys Rumsfeld’s Iraq war talking points

[kpete]

"There's no question that al Qaeda and Zarqawi and people were in Iraq," Rumsfeld argued. "They aggregated there."

"If we hadn't invaded, they wouldn't have been there," Zakaria pointed out.

"We don't know that," Rumsfeld insisted. "You don't know that. I don't know that."

"But they went in to fight us. So since we weren't there, why would they have gone into Iraq?" Zakaria countered.

"Why have they gone into Yemen and Somalia?" Rumsfeld asked. "Why do al Qaeda go anywhere? They go where it's hospitable."



"Right, and Iraq hadn't been hospitable," Zakaria said.

MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/11/zakaria-destroys-rumsfelds-iraq-war-talking-points/
PLUS:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p99s01-duts.html

[jtrockville]

1. "Yeah, that's right. So what?" - GWB

That's a direct quote (excerpted from the linked Raw Story article).

...

In 2008, President George W. Bush admitted to ABC's Martha Raddatz that al Qaeda had not been Iraq (sic) before the invasion.

"Yeah, that's right," Bush agreed. "So what?"

...

[Kolesar]

2. Fahreed Zakaria: my vote: +1 ... eom

[Mosaic]

3. It's obvious even to someone with a low IQ

That bush is damn liar. Bring him and his group to justice!

[Harmony Blue]

4. Logic prevails as usual

I don't always agree with Zakaria but he is always bringing truth to a subject.