Bush claims Iran - 9/11 connection!

Bush touts a connection between Iran and 9/11

Not an actual connection, mind you, just looking at the "facts".  He acknowledges that the CIA has long said there was no connection.  But still, you never know, right?

We need to call him on this, HARD.  Not only on the fact that it's a total fabrication, and designed to mislead the public... but hey, if there's any factual basis whatsoever, WHERE HAS HE BEEN FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS?

•  Iran Denies Supporting Al Qaeda

  Iran denies supporting al-Qaeda.

  by lysias on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:28:23 AM PDT

  •  Sounds like a firm basis for going to war.

    The more they deny it, the more it must be true.  Just like Iraq and the WMDs!

    by ultrageek on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:49:12 PM PDT

•  CIA can't prove Iran-Sept 11 link

  We can't prove Iran-Sept 11 link: CIA
  .

  by lysias on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:29:36 AM PDT

  •  You can't prove the Iraq-Sept 11 link either

    ..but we still went to war over it.

    by joejoejoe on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:18:56 PM PDT

    •  Fools...

      You can't disprove the link between the two either, so obviously, we need to go to war.....

      by zubalove on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:54:32 PM PDT

•  I Claim Britain - 9/11 Connection!

  See, I was in Britain at the time and saw it on the news and was shocked and horrified and then subsequent to that I moved to the US and no other major terrorist act has happened since! So, see, if I'd moved earlier, Britain wouldn't have had anything to do with this anecdote.

  Since I've given up trusting anything that the leader of either country says the Iran claim doesn't surprise me. What does is that Bush is picking a target that actually has the capability to fight back, especially after the US appears to be losing to a nation that was supposed to be a walkover in Iraq!

  by Rob M on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:31:51 AM PDT

  •  I think 9/11 commission sparked this claim

    I've seen a few diaries on this "Bush links Iran and 9/11" stuff.  Although I'd love to believe that Bush was pulling this out of his ass, in truth the news reports indicate that the upcoming 9/11 Commission report is making this contention.  Of course, the report doesn't say that Iran helped with 9/11, only that the 9/11 hijackers passed through there on their way to the U.S.

    Iran is a big sponsor of terrorism, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they were helping al-Qaeda now and then.  I think it is becoming obvious to everybody that Iran was always a bigger threat than Iraq, whether it be WMD programs or terrorist links.  

    The hawks now have to explain why they went after Iraq instead of Iran, since the one that fits their "threat" profile so much better is the one where we don't have 150,000 troops.

    by existenz on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:29:07 PM PDT

    •  NO connection

      Iran is a Shiite theocracy.  Al Qaeda is Wahhibist Sunni.  This is like an alliance between Greek Orthodox and Southern Baptists.  They HATE each other, and would not work together, even to fight the US.

      by Radical Middle on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:32:53 PM PDT

    •  Ask yourself why was this leaked.

      People leak reports to get the first chance to spin them.We don't actually know what the 9/11 report says on this matter but someone has decided to make sure that we all interpret it in the most ominous way. With Bush taking up the call today it seems the neocons are still at it now building thier case for an invasion of Iran.

      by Lcohen on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:46:01 PM PDT

•  Why does your poll NOT have...

  ...anything about the collaboration between the Martians and the Hottentots? Eh? What about that? Huh? Huh?

  They got to you, didn't they?

  I'm watching you, buddy...

  by Serephin on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:35:19 AM PDT

•  U.S. - 9/11 connection!

  The terrorists passed through the U.S. -- on legal visas even!

  by missanthropy on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:39:14 AM PDT

  •  Also...

    ..9/11 terrorists attended flight schools associated with government agencies (FAA) and had clandestine meetings with law enforcement (traffic stops). It's not much..but it's more than connects Iraq to Al-Qaeda.

    by joejoejoe on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:27:58 PM PDT

•  Flailing

  what a sad case.  Wanna bet his mental illness is exposed in a couple of years?  That the alcohol has eaten away huge swaths of brain tissue, including the entirity of the loci of "reason" and "humility"?

  by persimmony on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:39:34 AM PDT

  •  No, it's not the alcohol,

    he's suffering from mad cowboy disease.

    by jazzmaniac on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:59:23 AM PDT

•  October Surprise

  Three hints:

  1. Informant "Split-finger Fastball"
  2. Tehran
  3. Noo-kyu-lur

  The President of the United States could, under certain circumstances...declare himself Caesar. -Jon Stewart

  by Pyewacket on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:41:30 AM PDT

•  As we push the edge of the

  known Universe we will find more diversions wrt 9/11.  I'd be happy if we dealt with the Saudi connections.  Or ''Baudia Babia'' connections (the 28 redacted pages?... anytime now is fine) as Randi says, lest we trip national secrets acts.
  What a ocmplicated and vicious joke we are in the middle of... as CNN hypes the 9/11 commision and the "connections" 10 of the men on the planes had.
  Or, we could really look at SA and Whahabbism.

  by Marisacat on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:42:58 AM PDT

•  PNAC

  i wouldve voted "PNAC"

  www.nornsisland.com

  by n69n on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:43:26 AM PDT

  •  oops!

    If i'd thought of PNAC, i'd have put them in the poll instead of Cheney...

    by Radical Middle on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:47:24 AM PDT

•  al Qaeda members were in IRAN!

  
  Iran was the geographical base of some of those terrorists!

  Problem is, they were in Iranian jails.

  Just like Dick Cheney's Zarkawi claims, that because he had a base in northern Iraq out of reach from Saddam, somehow Iraq was responsible for him.
  

  by Felix Deutsch on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:55:45 AM PDT

•  Great God Almighty!

  This is like watching a drunk at a carny shooting gallery.

  (OK, faulty analogy ..  this isn't a carny shooting gallery.)

  by wilderness wench on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 11:59:27 AM PDT

•  I say Albania and/or Oceana

  Those are the perps behind 9-11.  

  by LionelEHutz on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:26:11 PM PDT

  •  We have always..

    .. been at war with Eurasia, I mean, Al-Qaida.
    

    by Craziel on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:39:57 PM PDT

•  New Plan to Withdraw from Iraq

  In my Cheney-Bush bumpersticker queue is something like "Because we haven't invaded Iran yet".  But they're out in front of me on this one.  Ya gotta move fast to satarize these bastards.

  See, they're just gonna get the US troops in Iraq to pull up stakes and move east.  If there are no US troops in Iraq, we're not responsible for the chaos (like Afghanistan). And besides, the media will be too busy embedding (em-prostituting-themselves?) all over again.

  by zzmarkzz on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 12:44:43 PM PDT

  •  Well

    Isn't our $1 billion UN building in Iraq going to straddle the boarder?

    Or hell, maybe we can help the new Iraqi 'government' redraw the map to include Iran. Bush is, after all, a uniter. The plan could be called something like, Operation Mesopotamian Reunification. Any pissed off Iranian would be termed an insurgent,and of course we would be liberating them and all. Shit, sounds like a good platform: BC 2004 for BC 2004.

    by PIG on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 01:13:47 PM PDT

•  Iraqi envoy to U.S. hails Iran's help

  Iraqi envoy to U.S. hails Iran's help.  That shouldn't help any march to war.

  by lysias on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 01:13:38 PM PDT

•  Response...

  Lyndon B. Johnson once said[I'm paraphrasing here, can't find the quote] "Doing the right thing as President is easy.  Finding out what the right thing is, is hard."

  It's clear now that Bush doesn't really know what the right solution is to any of our questions.  So he's lashing out and boxing at shadows on the wall in a desperate attempt to hide his incompetence.

  Maybe Iran is involved, maybe they are not.  But I don't think this nation can afford to hold this discussion relying upon someone who has shown a clear history of poor judgement of knowing what the right thing is.
  

  by Steve4Clark on Mon Jul 19, 2004 at 01:22:28 PM PDT