After reading

Murray Waas’s article a couple times, I think this could become the “smoking
gun” that proves Bush & Co. lied our nation into war. Just take the closing of
the article as an example:

Those grievances were also perhaps illustrated by comments that Vice
President Cheney himself wrote on one of Feith’s reports detailing purported
evidence of links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. In barely legible
handwriting, Cheney wrote in the margin of the report:

“This is very good indeed … Encouraging … Not like the crap we are all so
used to getting out of CIA.”

Just by the tone of Cheney’s side note you can tell he was becoming impatient
with the CIA reports. They weren’t saying what he wanted to hear – Saddam had
direct ties to al Qaeda and September 11.

The CIA report detailed in the article goes along the lines of something I
have always believed:

One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing
was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda
involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam
viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations
as a potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts
believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi
nationals or even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its
inner workings, according to records and sources.

Osama is looking to spread his beliefs and cause throughout the Middle East.
When you have a dictator like Saddam sitting right in the middle of the region,
then that is a road block for Osama. It would of been in the best interests of
Osama to overthrow Saddam and take control of Iraq (which could be part of the
reason of the insurgency today). Osama even released a video during the time of
our initial invasion denouncing Saddam and saying he would not be tied to him.
Face it, they have totally different religious views and to the terrorists that
is what this war is about.

There was another event today that I reported on but has not received much
mention in the man stream media. Early I did a post about John McCain joining
with Democrats in saying White House officials should be questioned on pre-war
intelligence (see post

here). The timing of that report and the report by Murray Waas is most
likely beyond coincidence.

It is no secret that McCain intends to run for President in 2008. It is also
common knowledge that a majority of this country now questions our reasons for
the Iraq war. McCain coming out and saying he supports the questioning is more
so a political stunt. He figures that will help him win over some of the
moderate Republican and Independent voters.

The timing is also very suspicious that we learn about this report during a
two week congressional recess. The recess just started this past weekend and it
gives the Republicans time to hold strategy sessions and decide on how to
counter this report. Also it might buy a day or two for the White House to
figure out responses to it.

This report could be the smoking gun or it could be the ammunition in it. We
won’t know until more information comes out but it definitely a step in the
right direction to finding out the true reason we are fighting this war. The
President and vice-President have some serious questions to answer and America
is demanding those answers. Now the ball is in the halls of Congress and they
must ensure that we get these answers. After all, it is their duty under the
constitution.