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September 9, 2006
On The Truth About The Senate Report On Saddam And The Terrorists
Topics: IraqAJStrata at The Strata Report says he knows why journalists get their stories so wrong so often - they lack basic reading comprehension skills:
With all the hoopla about the Senate Intelligence report supposedly saying there were no ties between Saddam and Terrorists (despite Iraq documents which log the training of thousands of terrorists, and notes reqarding meetings with Al Qaeda) it might behoove people to read them for themselves (WMD here, Terrorists here). One thing people should know is the terrorist related volume is NOT definitive or conclusive. Why?He says to let the report speak for itself (from the WMD volume) and offers additional commentary.
A commenter at TSR notes: "It's important to note that this report is not intended to be a conclusive report of postwar findings. It is a report to compare prewar CIA assesssments that were made in the last Senate intel report and compare ONLY THOSE words to what was found postwar, nothing outside those paremeters. Funny how the press glosses over that part of their "get Bush" storyline."
Lets add an additional reason why journalists get their stories so wrong so often - the Left's political agenda and that of the Democratic party. An overwhelming majority of journalists are liberal and are Democrats .
And yes, it would most definitely behoove the Democrats and their allies in the media to read the entire damned report before attempting to use it as a tool to beat up on the Bush administration with. However, they cannot escape the fact that when it comes to national security - Bush owns it (HT-The Strata Report). The Democrats aren't even in the same league, much less the same ballpark.
BTW - not having read the entire Report, I can't help but wonder what it says about al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri's trip to Baghdad in 1998 (in which he received $300,000, possibly from Saddam Hussein himself), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's medical trip to Baghdad in 2002 and the terrorist training that took place in the Salman Pak camp.
Posted by Richard at September 9, 2006 11:55 AM
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