対イラク武力行使

フセインイラクとアルカイダが無関係だったという結論はだしていない. アメリカの主流メディアがそのように歪曲して報道したので、君が騙されたとしても仕方ないがね。

しかし２００４年の６月３０日に９１１調査委員会の委員のひとり、リーハミルトン氏がテレビのインタビューにおいて、"There are all kinds of ties. There are all kinds of connections." アルカイダとフセインは「色々な結びつきがある」と語っている。さらにハミルトン氏は、チェイニー副大統領の見解通りイラクとアルカイダには深いつながりがあったと語っている。また委員会のリーマン委員長はアルカイダとフセインが武器開発に協力しあっていたという見解はクリントン政権の時からあったとテレビのインタビューで語っている。

このインタビューのトランスクリプトは下記にリンクしておく。
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5255893/
特に次の下りをよく読むべし。
MR. RUSSERT: Do you agree? Was there any evidence of any connection of Saddam Hussein with September 11?

MR. LEHMAN: Well, I really totally disagree with what I thought was outrageously irresponsible journalism, to portray what the staff statement -- and again, this is a staff statement; the commissioners have not addressed this issue yet -- to portray it as contradicting what the administration said. There's really very little difference between what our staff found, what the administration is saying today and what the Clinton administration said. The Clinton administration portrayed the relationship between al- Qaeda and Saddam's intelligence services as one of cooperating in weapons development. There's abundant evidence of that. In fact, as you'll soon hear from Joe Klein, President Clinton justified his strike on the Sudan "pharmaceutical" site because it was thought to be manufacturing VX gas with the help of the Iraqi intelligence service.

Since then, that's been validated. There has been traces of Empta that comes straight from Iraq, and this confounds the Republicans, who accused Clinton of doing it for political purposes. But it confirms the cooperative relationship, which were the words of the Clinton administration, between al-Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence.

The Bush administration has never said that they participated in the 9/11 attack. They've said, and our staff has confirmed, there have been numerous contacts between Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda over a period of 10 years, at least. And now there's new intelligence, and this has come since our staff report has been written because, as you know, new intelligence is coming in steadily from the interrogations in Guantanamo and in Iraq and from captured documents. And some of these documents indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al-Qaeda. That still has to be confirmed. But the vice president was right when he said that he may have things that we don't yet have. And we are now in the process of getting this latest intelligence.