{"id":159,"date":"2004-06-16T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=159"},"modified":"2004-06-16T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:10:41","slug":"consistency-in-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2004\/06\/16\/consistency-in-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistency in Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. And this is not from the anti war movement or Michael Moore, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9-11commission.gov\/\"><strong>National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; a bipartisan commission set up to investigate why 9\/11 happened. Its staff papers make for good reading. The commission <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/alqaida\/story\/0,12469,1240325,00.html\">says<\/a><\/strong>::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida also occurred after Bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And just a few days ago I saw Dick Chenney on CNN declaring that Saddam and Osama were joined at the hip and collaborated on every human disaster since Eve took a bite of the apple. So the Osama Saddam link is probably where the WMD&#8217;s are. Find the WMD and you will find the link. How would you expect a Wahabi Sunni Fundamentalist from the 10th century to deal with a secular godless debauch?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/001200406162203.htm\">the link<\/a><\/strong> that was there was between Pakistan and Al Qaeda &#8211; the link being the Taliban. And this link remained till much after the 9\/11 incident. Maybe, that&#8217;s where both the WMD&#8221;s and the other links will be found.<\/p>\n<p>In a few weeks all noise of the Saddam\/OBL link will slowly fade away, just as the noise on WMD&#8217;s did. And then will come a new justification.<br \/>\nMaybe if the administration simply told its people, we invaded Iraq because we wanted u to continue getting gas at $2 per gallon. It is your interests that we had in mind &#8211; they would simply be voted back again:)<br \/>\nTruth is always a good policy in situations like this &#8211; especially when different arms of the government cannot concoct a consistent lie:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. 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