We need a congressional hearing!

This is an excerpt from "Meet the Press."

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MR. RUSSERT: Hyped by whom?
GEN. CLARK: Well, I...
MR. RUSSERT: The CIA, or the president or vice president? Secretary of Defense, who?
GEN. CLARK: I think it was an effort to convince the American people to do something, and I think there was an immediate determination right after 9/11 that Saddam Hussein was one of the keys to winning the war on terror. Whether it was the need just to strike out or whether he was a linchpin in this, there was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001 starting immediately after 9/11 tom pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein.
MR. RUSSERT: By who? Who did that?
GEN. CLARK: Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, “You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.” I said, “But-I'm willing to say it but what’s your evidence?” And I never got any evidence. And these were people who had-Middle East think tanks and people like this and it was a lot of pressure to connect this and there were a lot of assumptions made. But I never personally saw the evidence and didn’t talk to anybody who had the evidence to make that connection.<<<<

Doesn't that give you chills?

For the full transcript look here:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/927000.asp?0dm=c23bv&cp1=1

>>>>Doesn't that give you chills?<<<<

Heck Vincent, what's new about that? I've had chills ever since W walked into the white house. This present outfit has strange ideas about what our country is supposed to stand for. Guess that doesn't matter though if a thriving democracy is secondary to your agenda. Just keep buying up your power base and covering your tracks, that's what really matters.

(I hope I'm not being too subtle about my postion on any of this. ;-)

I read through the whole thing also.

What scares me is his assertion there were widely dispersed orders to spread dissinformation on 9/11.

The Bush administration wanted so badly to sweep over large sections of the mideast, they jumped on the ashes of thousands to push their agenda right from the get go.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Bush was in bed with Osama, but he did immediately understand terrorism's benefits.