Washington - There is no evidence confirming that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab and his al-Qaeda associates, according to a senate report on pre-war intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President George W Bush's justification for going to war.
The declassified document being released on Friday by the senate intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group, Iraqi National Congress, had in the march to war.
It discloses for the first time an October 2005, assessment by the central intelligence agency (CIA) that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, neither harbour, 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 Saddam's government and al-Qaeda. Zarqawi was killed by a US airstrike in June this year.
The long-awaited report, said senator Carl Levin, a member of the committee, is "a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts" to link Saddam to al-Qaeda.
My comment:
As long as i can see , and every one have eyes as well , il qaeda wasnt based on iraq at saddam time , and never been there , if there is some one responsible for this chaos now in iraq , and all this terror .. it will be bush ,and his unjustified war on iraq.it wasn't a war against terror , it was a war against saddam hussin but not to protect american people , simply because saddam never threatened USA , and had never attacked USA ,iraq was the no.1 allied on when the war was between iran and iraq . but when he started to get stronger than israel , and threatened israeli existance ,it became USA enemy !!
and now thanks to USA , and BUSH .. iraq is now going to a civil war .
thanks to BUSH , and his kindness , he saved iraqi people from saddam , and brought il qaeda as a replacement.
