Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

IS TOO!
Minneapolis' City Pages has just posted a story with some Bush quotes, the most interesting of which is a listing of the times he has made the al Qaeda/Sadam connection.
"This is a person [Saddam] who has had contacts with al Qaeda."
--October 2002
"He's got connections with al Qaeda."
--October 2002
"This is a guy who has had connections with these shadowy terrorist networks."
--October 2002
"We know he's got ties with al Qaeda."
--November 2002
"In terms of [Iraq's] support for terrorism, we have established that Iraq has permitted al Qaeda to operate within its territory. As the president said recently, 'The regime has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist organizations. And there are al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq.' The president has made his position on Iraq eminently clear, and in the coming weeks and months we shall see what we shall see."
--John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, speech to the Hudson Institute
"We know that he's had connections with al Qaeda."
--November 2002
"He's had connections with shadowy terrorist networks like al Qaeda."
--November 2002
"We know that he has had contacts with terrorist networks like al Qaeda."
--November 2002
"And, not only that, he is--would like nothing better than to hook up with one of these shadowy terrorist networks like al Qaeda, provide some weapons and training to them, let them come and do his dirty work, and we wouldn't be able to see his fingerprints on his action."
--November 2002
"Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda."
--January 2003
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
--GWB to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, as reported in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, June 23, 2003
"Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out."
--Speaking to Condi Rice, March 2002, a full year before the invasion of Iraq.

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