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أخبرنا
واحدة أخرى يا سيادة نائب
الرئيس بقلم:
كارل ليفن لوس
أنجلوس تايمز- 12/4/2007 السيد ديك تشيني لا يزال يحاول
أن يربط العراق بالقاعدة و
أحداث 11 سبتمبر Tell us another one, Mr.
Vice President Dick
Cheney is still trying to link Iraq with Al Qaeda and
9/11. By
Carl Levin, CARL LEVIN, a Democratic senator from
Michigan, is chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. April
12, 2007
TO
PARAPHRASE President Reagan, there he goes again. On
Rush Limbaugh's radio program last week, Vice President
Dick Cheney spoke about Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab
Zarqawi and stated: "He went to Baghdad. He took up
residence there before we ever launched into Iraq,
organized the Al Qaeda operations inside Iraq…. This
is Al Qaeda operating in Iraq and, as I say, they were
present before we invaded Iraq." It
is incredible that more than four years after the
invasion, the vice president is still trying to convince
the public that Saddam Hussein's regime was connected to
Al Qaeda and that Zarqawi's presence in Iraq was
evidence of a connection. While
the vice president doesn't say directly that there was a
tie between the two, his clear purpose is to blur the
line between Al Qaeda — the perpetrator of the 9/11
attacks — and the Iraqi dictator in order to justify
the war in Iraq. The
problem is, that's simply not supported by the facts or
by our intelligence community — and everyone except
the vice president acknowledges it. In September, for
example, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in
a bipartisan report that Hussein was "distrustful
of Al Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to
his regime, refusing all requests from Al Qaeda to
provide material or operational support." And the
CIA reported a year earlier, in October 2005, that the
Iraqi regime "did not have a relationship, harbor
or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his
associates." As the Intelligence Committee report
noted, the Iraqi intelligence service was actually
trying to capture Zarqawi, who was in Baghdad under an
alias. Is the vice president willfully ignoring what the
rest of the government has concluded? Or does he have
access to information he hasn't shared with us? If so,
he should produce it. The
vice president has a clear, documented pattern of
overstating and misstating information with regard to
Iraq. He also, for instance, continued to claim that
9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta may have met with an Iraqi
agent in Prague — long after the intelligence
community believed otherwise. Again, his obvious purpose
is to link Hussein's regime with Sept. 11, even though
the rest of the world has concluded that no such link
exists. The
vice president has made so many outlandish statements
that the country barely raised an eyebrow at his false
statement last week. The public has stopped believing
the words of a man who promised, before we invaded Iraq,
that we would be "greeted as liberators" and
reassured us nearly two years ago that the insurgency
was in its "last throes." But
his comments continue to erode our credibility with the
international community, which has already been severely
damaged by our rush to war with Iraq with little
international support. If, in the months ahead, we face
a crisis over Iran's weapons programs and need to rally
the international community, we may find that the world
has little interest in trusting an administration that
misstates facts. By
all accounts, Dick Cheney is one of the most powerful
vice presidents in our history, if you define power as
influence over policy. We need to ask ourselves: What
does it mean for our country when the vice president's
words lack credibility, but he still wields great power? ----------------- نشرنا
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من حق الزائر الكريم أن ينقل وأن ينشر كل ما يعجبه من موقعنا . معزواً إلينا ، أو غير معزو .ـ |
