WOLFOWITZ'S BIG MOUTH
Deputy Defense Secretary Admits
No Link Between Iraq, al-Qaeda

In an interview with conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham, Wolfowitz was asked when he first came to believe that Iraq was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

"I'm not sure even now that I would say Iraq had something to do with it," Wolfowitz said in the interview, aired Friday.

Wolfowitz's answer confirms doubts long held by critics of the Iraq war that the Bush administration had no evidence linking Iraq to 9-11 or al-Qaeda, but simply used the horrific terrorist attacks as a reason to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his Baathist regime.

"I think what the realization to me is -- the fundamental point was that terrorism had reached the scale completely different from what we had thought of it up until then. And that it would only get worse when these people got access to weapons of mass destruction which would be only a matter of time," Wolfowitz said in the interview. "...What you really got to do is, eliminate terrorist networks and eliminate terrorism as a problem. And clearly Iraq was one of the country -- you know top of the list of countries actively using terrorism as an instrument of national policy."

Since the United States invaded Iraq 111 days ago, no chemical or biological weapons have been found in the country.

No link to bin-Laden, no WMDs...this is from one of the architects of the war, for god's sake! How much more evidence do we need?!? My god, the Niger-uranium thing is just a puff of smoke compared to the overall picture. These guys in the Bush administration really need to be hung out to dry; the way things are going, I wonder if that's ever going to happen.

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Thanks to J. Orlin Grabbe.

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