by DFA Staff [courtesy of Blog for America]

The Bush administration has blocked a planned web release of a Pentagon study that determined there was no pre-war link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida.  Instead, they will mail a copy to reporters if it is requested.  Obviously, this is nothing more than a strange attempt at a delay because the study will no doubt be scanned and on the internet in no time.  More from McClatchy:

In making their case for invading Iraq in 2002 and 2003, President Bush and his top national security aides claimed that Saddam's regime had ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

But the study, based on more than 600,000 captured documents, including audio and video files, found that while Saddam sponsored terrorism, particularly against opponents of his regime and against Israel, there was no evidence of an al Qaida link.

Danny
Communications Director

by John Darling [courtesy of Blog for America]

By now, four years into Bush’s “war” in Iraq, it should be abundantly clear to everyone, even his minority hardcore base, that every reason Bush gave publicly for invading Iraq was a lie.

Saddam Hussein had no “WMD”, no ties with 9/11, no plans to get his hands on yellowcake uranium (remember those 16 words?), nothing, nothing at all.

One by one all of Bush’s assertions about Iraq’s threat to American have been proven to be lies.

So why did he do it?

Why did he knowingly send our troops out to be killed, mortgaged the future of our children and grandchildren to pay for his “war”, and in doing so jeopardize the entire American economy. What is it that Hussein had that made Bush disregard the future of America? What? The answer is one that seems so obvious now in retrospect that everyone should know it: All Bush ever wanted was Hussein’s oil.