Bush admits Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11

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AUG. 21, 2006 - Bush again says Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11

Bush admits Saddam had nothing to do with 911 and that they had no WMD

Prior to Bush's latest statement, a Harris poll showed that 50% of Americans still think that Iraq DID have WMD - Aug 6, 2006

MORE:

· 47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on 9/11 (HARRIS POLL, Feb '05). 44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis.

· A poll conducted in April 2004 indicated that 57% of Americans were still linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks on Sept. 11.

· Half of New Yorkers believe US leaders had foreknowledge of impending 9-11 attacks and “Consciously Failed” to act, according to an August 2004 Zogby poll.

· Before the Iraq war started, British Intelligence rejected the claim that Iraq was linked to al-Qaeda.

· "(Iraq) was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan...and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan." --Four-star general Wesley Clark's 2003 book

· Powell Sees No 'Direct' Link Between Hussein, Sept. 11 (Washington Post 9/14/04)

· CIA Questions Saddam’s Ties to Al Qaeda (ABC News)

· Truth About Iraq Finally Has It's Pant's On - Robert Scheer (LA Times)

AUG. 21, 2006, White House Press Conference

For at least the second time, Bush admitted that Iraq had "nothing" to do with 9/11. He also restated that Iraq did not have WMD.
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Click here for video & transcript of the entire press conference
Click here for Bush's first 9/11 Iraq admission - Sept 18, 2003

Bush also said that his administration never even suggested that Iraq was behind 9/11. Here are a few instances that put his lie to the test:

	"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September 11." President Bush 5/1/03
	"Prior to September the 11th, there was apparently no connection between a place like Iraq and terror," President Bush at a congressional retreat in 2003.
	"We have not forgotten the victims of September 11 ... With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got." President Bush discussing the Iraq war during his "Mission Accomplished" speech 5/2/03
	Military success in Iraq would strike at "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on Sept. 11." Vice President Cheney 9/14/03
	In April 2003, when he was defending his decision to invade Iraq, President Bush said he refused to leave the nation's enemies "free to plot another September 11."
	Vice President Cheney has said that Sept. 11 mastermind Mohammed Atta met with a senior Iraqi official in Prague. But a congressional report on the attacks stated that the CIA was unable to confirm Cheney’s allegation. Former CIA Director George Tenet told Congress that the C.I.A. is "increasingly skeptical" about the Atta story.