[Dean's World] Dave Price: Ridiculous Right-Wing Propaganda

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Posted by Dave Price:
Ridiculous Right-Wing Propaganda
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1178049920.shtml


   Via [1]the Corner, Clinton appointee George Tenet on the Hussein
   regime's cooperation with Al Qaeda:

     We believed that up to two hundred al-Qa'ida fighters began to
     relocate there in camps after the Afghan campaign began in the fall
     of 2001. The camps enhanced Zarqawi's reach beyond the Middle East.
     One of the camps run by AI, known as Kurmal, engaged in production
     and training in the use of low-level poisons such as cyanide. We
     had intelligence telling us that Zarqawi's men had tested these
     poisons on animals and, in at least one case, on one of their own
     associates. They laughed about how well it worked. Our efforts to
     track activities emanating from Kurmal resulted in the arrest of
     nearly one hundred Zarqawi operatives in Western Europe planning to
     use poisons in operations.
     ...
     What was even more worrisome was that by the spring and summer of
     2002, more than a dozen al-Qa'ida-affiliated extremists converged
     on Baghdad, with apparently no harassment on the part of the Iraqi
     government. They had found a comfortable and secure environment in
     which they moved people and supplies to support Zarqawi's
     operations in northeastern Iraq.
     Other high-level al Qaeda terrorists set up shop in Baghdad as
     well. From Saddam's neo-Stalinist capital they planned attacks
     around the globe...

   Clearly Tenet is delusional, since all right-thinking people know
   there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda (Saddam was secular!
   They hated each other!), and no amount of evidence to the contrary
   matters. I blame Karl Rove's infernal mind control rays, or possibly a
   Halliburton-developed anti-truth serum.

References

   1. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2NlOWY0MTE2MDJjNTI3MGU3ODY0YzA4MzgxZDk1MWU=