The 1993 bombing was shown to have Iraqi connections in a US court of law.

The 1993 bombing should really be a part of the investigation of 9/11, but there are quotes from members of the committee about how they weren't responsible for examining (insert-act-here), just 9/11. Hard to connect anything if you're saying "I can't see you" to half of the freaking dots.

The big problem is that you can't tell people these things.

Point out the terror connections, and it's "what about WMD?"

Point out the history of chemical/nuke weapons and Iraq, and it's "well, they never used them."

Point out the massacre of the Kurds, and it's "they only killed their own people..."

Point out the number of people in other countries who were killed because Hussein paid people to murder them, and "it's time for lunch..."

The CIA doubted that terrorist-connected Shakir's hiring to escort the 9/11 hijackers to their meeting had anything to do with Iraqi intelligence?

Embassies serve as the home office of intelligence operations in host countries, but it's outlandish to think in this case Iraqi intelligence was somehow involved?

It's willful denial.

BTW, Iraq was the only nation in the world that officially applauded the 9/11 attacks, refused to lower its flag or offer the US condolences, and of course blamed the attacks as a natural response to US policies.

There's also apparently some evidence that Islamic extremists assisted Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the Oklahoma City bombing, as recounted in the book The Third Terrorist, by investigative reporter Jayna Davis. (It's still available at Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon.com; my local B&N and Borders still have it in stock, even though it came out about a year and a half ago.) At least one of those other individuals allegedly involved in the OKC bombing, according to Davis' book, was Iraqi. Davis also noted in her book that the Federal government went out of its way to ignore, "lose" and/or suppress evidence linking McVeigh and Nichols to Islamofascists, any mention of a possible Islamic connection to OKC, and anything else that contradicted the "official" line that McVeigh, Nichols, and perhaps a few other "militia" guys perpretrated the OKC attack.

Which sounds familiar, doesn't it? Davis doesn't come off as a conspiracy nut in her book, and her reportage sounds a lot more credible when you look at - for instance - how the CIA, in its ongoing political feud with the Bush Administration and Rumsfeld's Defense Department, keeps leaking information designed to undercut the arguments the President made regarding Saddam's WMD and support for terrorism....arguments which were based in large part on information produced by the CIA itself throughout the Clinton years and the first year or so of Bush's presidency stating that Saddam was pursuing WMD and was , in fact, supporting Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Or - another "for instance" - look at how the 9/11 Commission has ignored the Able Danger revelations that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta was identified as a terrorist and tracked down to New York a year before the attacks, because that didn't fit the "official" timeline that Atta arrived in the States only a couple of months in advance. Similarly, they ignored testimony from a Department of Agriculture official in Florida that Atta tried to purchase crop-dusting planes a year before the attacks for the same reason.

Or look at how the 9/11 Commission and the CIA have ignored the report from Czech Intelligence that Atta met with Iraqi Intelligence operatives in Prague in April of 2001. Or how the CIA tried to undercut - in the guise of "verifying" - the British Intelligence report that Saddam was trying to acquire uranium from Niger. And when the feckless Joe Wilson actually found evidence that the Iraqis were trying to do just that, he came home and lied about it in a New York Times op-ed piece attacking President Bush.

At least the 9/11 Commission exposed Wilson as a liar. Which is surprising, because the problem here is that the 9/11 Commission has also exposed once and for all that "official Washington" isn't interested in truth, or at least that truth that threatens the preconceived notions, ideological worldview, petty bureaucratic fiefdoms and/or party line of the overwhelmingly Democratic Washington Establishment.

(pauses to take deep breath)

Whew. Sorry about the extended rant. I now return to you the remainder of your bandwith, and thank you for your patience.

Oh, screw it, I can't find my last posts. Ace, where's Laura? I want her to IM me.

Until the truth starts to hurt these guys, they're not going to care about it. As long as they can get away with its suppression, everything is copacetic for 'em.

I still can't understand why someone as allegedly super-smart like Rove can't develop a P.R. blitz regarding Iraq's numerous connections to terrorism.

In my opinion, it would be a slam dunk. If I was Rove/Bush, I would haul out the few CIA personnel I could trust and make them the mouthpieces. Tenet would be a good candidate.

Hell, if nothing else, make them read this verbatim:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/804yqqnr.asp

Shit. Make that:

The Mother of All Connections

So Slubs came and talked to me but Laura's still off somewhere, which totally isn't cool. And no, I really don't care what the hell y'all are talking about.

Laura, honey? I miss you.

(what? you thought I was going to be decorous?)

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Oh dear, go away, you tiresome little man.

I am unable to post at my own blog for some reason, so I figure I'll put this here for you all: Peace Mom to protest Maine air show.

Yup, Cindy Sheehan is coming to Maine to protest the Blue Angels. An air show. At a base already slated for closure.

Yup, that'll show those warmongering "evil bastards" in the White House!

Totally O/T, but has anyone else noticed the massive slowdown of conservative sites today. Captain's Quarters, Power Line, Hugh Hewitt, Lileks - all seem to be offline. Malkin is slow, The mu.nu-ers are slow.

Kos, Atrios and TPM, though, are loading just as fast as can be.

Not that that means anything, of course.

The 911 commision is the most egregious example of a coverup I've seen in a long time. Because of its dire importance and bland nothings in its conclusions, it is truly a monsterous seminal work in smoke and mirrors. The fact that Jamie "the wall" Goerlick helped stop the interagency flow of information and had gall to then sit on the commission which among other things, was investing this wall shows just how brazen Liberals are capable of being, especially the MSM which totally ignored this fact. The Liberal MSM would have lynched her if she'd been a conservative!

The fact that 9/11 Commission Suppressed Evidence of Links Between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein should come as no surprise, for this comic opera bouffe might be funny if it weren't so deadly serious a matter.

God how I hate Liberals! I am forced to say the Liberal Serenity Prayer again:

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the Liberals I cannot eradicate from public life.

The Courage to eradicate those that I can,

And the Wisdom to know the difference.

From Ed Morrissey, posted today over at Captains' Quarters:

The Commission appears to have included every data point that supports the popular notion (even before their start) that the 9/11 attacks came with almost no state support other than the Taliban in Afghanistan, and even then only in sheltering the al-Qaeda strategists who ordered the attacks. The "dots" that the Commission excluded from even a mention -- if only just to debunk them -- all seem to point to state assistance from either Iran, Iraq, or both. Most of them show that the intelligence community actually did uncover some interesting data, on which the bureaucracy either explicitly blocked further investigation or discouraged action. Why would the Commission want to do that? Could it be that the collection of bureaucrats that comprised the panel wanted to believe that the bureacracy could save America, and that the intelligence communities needed more constraints, post-9/11? Or could they have wanted to underscore the meme, during a presidential election, that our "unilateral" approach to policy regarding the two potential state actors had no basis in national-security requirements?

Emphasis in the above is mine.