Pentagon Report Shows No Iraq Plot To Assassinate Bush Sr.

Newsweek:

President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripted remark he made at a Texas political fund-raiser on Sept. 26, 2002. "After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time," Bush said. The comment referred to a 1993 claim by the Kuwaiti government--accepted by the Clinton administration--that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) had plotted to assassinate President George H.W. Bush during a trip to Kuwait that spring. Ever since, armchair psychologists have suggested that personal revenge may have been one reason for the president's determination to overthrow Saddam's regime.

But curiously little has been heard about the allegedly foiled assassination plot in the five years since the U.S. military invaded Iraq. A just-released Pentagon study on the Iraqi regime's ties to terrorism only adds to the mystery. The review, conducted for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, combed through 600,000 pages of Iraqi intelligence documents seized after the fall of Baghdad, as well as thousands of hours of audio- and videotapes of Saddam's conversations with his ministers and top aides. The study found that the IIS kept remarkably detailed records of virtually every operation it planned, including plots to assassinate Iraqi exiles and to supply explosives and booby-trapped suitcases to Iraqi embassies. But the Pentagon researchers found no documents that referred to a plan to kill Bush. The absence was conspicuous because researchers, aware of its potential significance, were looking for such evidence. "It was surprising," said one source familiar with the preparation of the report (who under Pentagon ground rules was not permitted to speak on the record). Given how much the Iraqis did document, "you would have thought there would have been some veiled reference to something about [the plot]."

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Comments

[HumeSkeptic]

So, our President lied? I'm shocked.

[nick1936]

Why am I not surprised

[Grannysue]

You have to drink the Kool aid before you read those reports silly.

[CindyKay]

No Surprise There !

[OperationChaos]

And yet C-SPAN has the nerve to publish this?! ( http://www.c-span.org/iraq/history.asp )

QUOTE

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON RETALIATION FOR IRAQI PLOT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH
June 26, 1993
On April 13, 1993, several Iraqi nationals were arrested in Kuwait and charged with plotting an assassination attempt against former President Bush as he visited Kuwait that month. In June of that year, President Clinton retaliated for the attempted assassination by authorizing air strikes against Iraq. Next, President Clinton's address to the American people on the assassination plot and the bombing of Iraq.

/QUOTE

Did Clinton ever get a declaration from Congress authorizing those air strikes? Hhmmmm...

I guess Clinton, who among some is considered the best U. S. President this century, was duped by a Texas hayseed with the "C" average in school. I guess obtaining a Rhodes Scholar is not as much an accomplishment as the Rhodes foundation believes it to be.

[nellie]

Another lie. How surprising.

[bob5701]

" SO" What!

[Bobleblah1]

Every aspect of the Bush families lives are a lie.
I cant think of one honest dealing that these people are involved in.
A question that I would love to actually be able to get an answer for is.
When was the last time Bush or his father put in an honest days work?
A day where their actions were not intended to gain at the expense of others.
A day that they were not engaged in an act that directly violated the spirit and laws of the
Constitution of the United States of America?

When was the last day in either of their lives, when human beings were not dying as a direct result of some action they took?

I tell you, this family not only does not believe in God, they pray every night that the Christian prophecy is fake. Because if its real..............................................Oh my oh my, what punishment is coming.

[bigdaddyvike]

Chimpy's $10 trillion mistake. Wow. We oughta build him a library. Let's put it in the green zone.

[Rescisco]

Well you know "W." When something he believes is proven to be untrue, that's when he is absolutely sure he is right.

[speakingtruth2power]

I guess it really was about the oil after all. OR, Cheney told W another whopper.

It will always be a mystery how much W was in on this and not a witless dupe.

Either way, Darth is GHWB's consigliare and both knew not to trust a dry-drunk.

[GOP4MoreTears]

Say it ain't so, you mean to tell me that was just more GOP spin?

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Junior's just "projecting."

[rojo7449]

Well, that was a well-timed release of information. Of course, only GWB wanted to go after Saddam for purposes of revenge against this unproven claim. I'm wondering why the Pentagon is given such a low standard of honor when it comes to correcting the false information when it goes public.

[HumeSkeptic]

Even more mistakes were made than previously known.