US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today he had seen no "strong, hard evidence" linking former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda. But instead of accepting responsibility for his own misleading remarks over the past two years, Rumsfeld again blamed the intelligence community for shifting positions.
When asked about Saddam's connection to al-Qaeda, Rumsfeld said:
"I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over a period of a year in the most amazing way... To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two."It will be interesting to see if Dick Cheney, who has made the strongest and most consistent assertions of a link between Saddam and Al-Quaeda, chooses to follow Rumsfeld's lead on this issue in Tuesday night's VP Debate. The Nation already has ten great questions for Dick Cheney lined up: the Saddam-al Quaeda link question should be added to the list.
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