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Misrepresentations and revisionism in White House response to the 9/11 Commission
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jun 25, 2004 05:24pm |
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| News Date | Friday, June 25, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
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By Ben Fritz
The latest staff statements from the 9/11 Commission have led to a barrage of criticism suggesting the Bush administration was dishonest in making its case for invading Iraq. The White House has argued that the report does not contradict anything its officials have said in the past, but these claims misrepresent both the staff statements and the case Bush and his aides made for war.
The debate has centered on the conclusion in the 15th staff statement (84K PDF) that while there were contacts between Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government and Al Qaeda, the two never worked together and, to a lesser extent, the 16th staff statement (100K PDF), which stated that 9/11 terrorist Mohammed Atta never met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague, as the administration claimed before the war.
The White House has repeatedly argued that the Commission staff’s statements were restricted to the issue of whether Iraq was connected to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. |
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