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Bush Distances from Cheney on Saddam-9/11 Link
Now, I know I been purtty focused on my new job the last six months, and haven't seen much of the news, but I thought Bush had told us that there was a link between SaDamn and 9/11. I was sure I heard Bush say something to that effect. Maybe it was just that I heard it stated as truth so many tomes on Right-Wing radio that I thought Bush had said it.
Now, I know I been purtty focused on my new job the last six months, and haven't seen much of the news, but I thought Bush had told us that there was a link between SaDamn and 9/11. I was sure I heard Bush say something to that effect. Maybe it was just that I heard it stated as truth so many tomes on Right-Wing radio that I thought Bush had said it.
Bush Distances from Cheney on Saddam-9/11 LinkBy Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) distanced himself on Wednesday from comments by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) that left the impression he saw a possible link between Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in Sept. 11," Bush told reporters as he met members of Congress on energy legislation.
Democrats have accused the administration of creating the "false impression" at the heart of a widespread belief held by Americans that Saddam had a personal role in the attacks.
A recent poll by the Washington Post said 69 percent of Americans believed there was a Saddam link to the Sept. 11 attacks although no evidence of such a link has surfaced.
Cheney, interviewed on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," left open the possibility of a Saddam link to the attacks.
Cheney said on Sunday "It's not surprising" the public would believe Saddam was involved in the attacks, blamed on the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), who has repeatedly praised the attacks.
"We don't know," Cheney said. "We've learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq (news - web sites) and al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s."
Bush said Cheney was right about suspicions of an Iraq-al Qaeda link, citing the case of Jordanian Abu Musab Zarqawi, a leader of an Islamic group in northern Iraq called Ansar al-Islam believed to have links to al Qaeda.
The United States believes Zarqawi received medical treatment in Baghdad and helped orchestrate the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan.
"There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties," Bush said.