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More on the Connection
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Originally posted by sgtclub
From Chris Matthews interview with Jim Woolsey
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Read my post from yesterday, read that transcript again, and see if you can spot where Woolsey is exagerating the Iraq/Al Qaeda link in exactly the same way that Tenet was. Do you not have a bullshit detector, or do you just want there to be a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda so badly that you don't care? Al Qaeda is a bunch of Islamists. Iraq was secular and Arab nationalist -- what Al Qaeda is trying to defeat. This doesn't preclude cooperation between them -- think the Ribbentrop Pact between the USSR and Germany at the start of WWII -- but it means that invading Iraq to take out Al Qaeda is a little like invading Nazi Germany to take out global communism.
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