Pentagon Definitively Debunks Hillary Clinton's Pre-War Claim of Saddam/Al Qaeda Link

An exhaustive Pentagon review has established definitively that there was no pre-war operational link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda.

So here's the question for Hillary Clinton. In the senator's war-authorization speech in October 2002, she claimed this:

Saddam "has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members."

The National Intelligence Estimate at the time cast serious doubts on any Al Qaeda/Iraq link. But Clinton has acknowledged she did not read the NIE.

So what was her source for this faulty intelligence?

And why did Senator Clinton believe it credible enough to use as a linchpin justification for war?

(Rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs)

Comments

[ProgressiveNotLiberal]

Because she was running for President and has been since moving to New York and launching her campaign from there.

[myskylark]

Give it a rest. Those who will never forgive her for her vote have already opted for Obama. The rest of us are ready to move on.

[V4Vigilance]

Why should we "give it a rest"? Isn't this a very important part of the 35 years of experience she's touting as the reason she should be the Democratic nominee? Isn't this part of "crossing the commander in chief threshold"? Isn't this THE MOST IMPORTANT foreign policy decision she's made in her life?


I'll tell you what, when all the friends and families of all the people who have been killed and maimed in the travesty that is the occupation of Iraq are ready to "move on", I'll be fine with you and your candidate moving on.


OBAMA 08

[cyndeewi]

Going forward, we are going to find Hillary in so many lies. I believe she should stay in the race but needs to stop lying and trying to control people.

[Countess]

She repeated this same argument in a debate with Obama as if any intelligent person would accept this Bushian logic. I cannot understand how anyone who is against this war and the coming wars she is more than hinting at could back another Bellicose Bushian candidate such as Hillary Clinton. She is not a moderate but a dangerous neocon who has very little understanding of world affairs.