# "Iraq supplied al-Qaeda with WMDs" -- Does this report justify the war? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 9, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072 "2003-08-09T19:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/21 "2003-08-09T23:44:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monty2\_2001 \* > Leftists hate Bush and America so damn bad that they put saddam and even al qaeda on a pedistal. > > It’s sickening. Actually it’s pretty depressing when right-wing fanatics make unsupported allegations. Could you produce a quote? (From your spelling of ‘pedestal’, I can explain to you what a quote is, if necessary.) Do you know who put Saddam in charge in Iraq? Do you know where he got his weapons of mass destruction from? And assuming I despise the Bush policy over Guantanamo Bay, why would I support terrorists? Did you mean ‘put Amnesty International on a pedestal’? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/22 "2003-08-09T23:53:51Z")
\ \ Opening credits of . . .’The New Adventure of Robinson Crusoe’ Starring: Sam Stone as Robinson Crusoe December as Man Friday . . …and not many others . . . \ Will they be rescued by The Administration . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/23 "2003-08-10T00:09:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RedFury \* > \*\*Well, the first one that’ll be shocked to hear about Al Quada connections at this point is Wolfowitz: > > > [@](#): > > > > In an interview with conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham, Wolfowitz was asked when he first came to believe that Iraq was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks. > > > > “I’m not sure even now that I would say Iraq had something to do with it,” Wolfowitz said in the interview, aired Friday. \*\*Why is this quote inconsistent with a belief that al-Qaeda has been aided by Iraq? And if the report in the OP is proven accurate, why would this be considered ex post facto justification (as some in this thread contend), given the administration’s contention, prior to the war, that Iraq aided and abetted al-Qaeda? You might recall this assertion, since it was treated with such derision on this very board. If the pre-war intelligence told of an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, and now one is shown to exist, this will be ex post facto why? ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/24 "2003-08-10T00:29:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*Sam Stone as Robinson Crusoe > December as Man Friday \*\* I picture it more like Gilligan’s Island. They _almost_ get rescued every week, but Gilligan somehow manages to klutz things up. You could have either **december** or GWB in the role of Gilligan. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/25 "2003-08-10T00:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > If the pre-war intelligence told of an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, and now one is shown to exist, this will be ex post facto why? Because, if the administration had this information (or anything like it), it should have been presented to the U.N. instead of their “well, there was one guy that was part of al Qaida that visited Iraq a couple of years ago.” If there is anything to this (beyond either pure invention or some al Qaida guy giving his interrogators what they want to hear), then it should have been part of the actual justification for the war _before_ the war. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/26 "2003-08-10T00:40:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\* > Bet on it. Documents will be found. Nothing physical, no actual weapons, but the “weapons program” will be found, because nothing in the world is easier to produce than documents. If they find a damp cocktail napkin with the word “sarin” written on it in Saddams delicate hand, they will be trumpeting the smoking blueprints of a gun in one minute flat. And then, of course, they will move on. If they can latch on to the merest shred of evidence, they will inflate that smidgeon like inflating a Japanese condom into a Zeppelin. And there are those here among us who will state, with a straight face and no hint of irony, that the matter is now settled. \*\* Just about a week ago, Condoleeza Rice cited the finding of the 13 year old centrifuge parts and the notorious tubes as evidence to Gwen Ifill on _The News Hour_. Every now and then those nefarious chemical laboratory trailers are paraded about like the Pharaoh’s umbilical. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/27 "2003-08-10T00:41:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*Because, if the administration had this information (or anything like it), it should have been presented to the U.N. instead of their “well, there was one guy that was part of al Qaida that visited Iraq a couple of years ago.” > > If there is anything to this (beyond either pure invention or some al Qaida guy giving his interrogators what they want to hear), then it should have been part of the actual justification for the war _before_ the war. \*\* Something like, say, [Powell’s address to the U.N.](http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm)? > [@](#): > > \*\*But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi an associate and collaborator of Usama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants. > > Zarqawi, Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan war more than a decade ago. Returning to Afghanistan in 2000, he oversaw a terrorist training camp. One of his specialties, and one of the specialties of this camp, is poisons. > > When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp, and this camp is located in northeastern Iraq. You see a picture of this camp. > > The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch – imagine a pinch of salt – less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food, would cause shock, followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote. There is no cure. It is fatal. > > Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein’s controlled Iraq. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization Ansar al-Islam that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered al-Qaida safe haven in the region. > > After we swept al-Qaida from Afghanistan, some of those members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today. > > Zarqawi’s activities are not confined to this small corner of northeast Iraq. He traveled to Baghdad in May of 2002 for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months while he recuperated to fight another day. > > During his stay, nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there. These al-Qaida affiliates based in Baghdad now coordinate the movement of people, money and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network, and they have now been operating freely in the capital for more than eight months. > > Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al-Qaida. These denials are simply not credible. Last year, an al-Qaida associate bragged that the situation in Iraq was “good,” that Baghdad could be transited quickly. \*\*This is absolutely consistent with what is now being reported, is it not? ---
**Author:** ![monty2\_2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@monty2\_2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monty2_2001)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/28 "2003-08-10T00:48:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*Because, if the administration had this information (or anything like it), it should have been presented to the U.N. instead of their “well, there was one guy that was part of al Qaida that visited Iraq a couple of years ago.” LOL, the UN sat on its hands for years while Iraq did whatever it wanted, and wasn’t going to do jack about the current situation either. This report is a huge steaming pile of crow that the left is having to eat now. Now, the left is going ‘it doesn’t matter if there were WMD’s, blah blah’ Pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/29 "2003-08-10T00:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by december_ > A HIGH-RANKING al-Qaeda operative in custody disclosed that Iraq supplied the Islamist militant group… Is this the _same_ high-ranking al-Qaeda operative who spent last year closing banks and generally jerking us around, or is this a new and improved _good_ al-Qaeda operative ? > [@](#): > > (Apr, 2002) The U.S. government on Friday warned of a possible act of terrorism against banks in the north-eastern states. Officials said the intelligence came partly from interrogating Abu Zubaydah, the most senior al-Qaeda member in U.S. custody. U.S. officials said the threats were coming from the al-Qaeda network of Usama bin Laden. It was the most concrete acknowledgment yet of what type of information was coming out of the Zubaydah interrogations. [cached](http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:MOXwmHMKuCAJ:www.emergency.com/2002/ERRI_apr02.pdf+closed+al-qaeda+banks+east+coast+washington+%22new+york%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) Does anyone else remember the scare about frogmen armed with nuclear weapons threatening America’s rivers and harbours ? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/30 "2003-08-10T01:14:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monty2\_2001 \* > \*\*LOL, the UN sat on its hands for years while Iraq did whatever it wanted, and wasn’t going to do jack about the current situation either. > > This report is a huge steaming pile of crow that the left is having to eat now. > > Now, the left is going ‘it doesn’t matter if there were WMD’s, blah blah’ > > Pathetic. \*\* There _still_ aren’t any WMD’s, dude, at least neither in Iraq or in al Qaeda. We just have an allegation by one guy that maybe Iraq gave al Qaeda some chemicals. That’s really rather a dubious claim since Iraq, itself, doesn’t seem to have any. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/31 "2003-08-10T01:30:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monty2\_2001 \* > \*\*LOL, the UN sat on its hands for years while Iraq did whatever it wanted, and wasn’t going to do jack about the current situation either. > > This report is a huge steaming pile of crow that the left is having to eat now. > > Now, the left is going ‘it doesn’t matter if there were WMD’s, blah blah’ > > Pathetic. \*\* There _still_ aren’t any WMD’s, dude, at least neither in Iraq or in al Qaeda. We just have an allegation by one guy that maybe Iraq gave al Qaeda some chemicals. That’s really rather a dubious claim since Iraq, itself, doesn’t seem to have any. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/32 "2003-08-10T01:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp, and this camp is located in northeastern Iraq. You see a picture of this camp. Actually, it seems to have nothing to do with the current claim. When Zarqawi’s camp was taken, several weeks before Baghad fell, the U.S. and our Kurdish allies were all over the camp and reported no findings of any connection with the Ba’ath or Hussein. The report at that time was that al Qaida seemed to be using the U.S. protection of the Kurds as a way to have a place safe from both Iraq and Iran to train their agents for exportation to other locales. They also found (last I had seen reported) no evidence of poisons of any sort. It was strictly a training camp for guerrilla fighters. (There was a flurry of reports at the time of the capture of Sagrat that “recipes” and “residue” of chemical weapons had been found and shipped off to the U.S. for analysis. Four months later, the adminstration is quietly letting those reports die the same ignominious deaths as all the other early reports.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/33 "2003-08-10T01:36:12Z")
I have just been passed a note from the SDMB hamster, **Slow-Moe**. “Guys, please! Its bad enough that I have to run my tiny little feet off for content-free postings, do you have to make it worse by refuting them? Take it to the Pit, willya, that’s **Dead Meat’s** job. Gimmee a break, I’m all out of amphetamine…” ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/34 "2003-08-10T01:42:57Z")
In addition to the points made above I think it is useful to note that the [Herald Sun](http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/sectionindex2/0,5443,dhsaboutus%255ETEXT%255Eheraldsun,00.html) belongs to Rupert Murdoch’s stable of newspapers. As such the story is about as credible as those remarkably convenient (from the administration’s pov) stories that keep popping up in the Washington Times but almost nowhere else. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/35 "2003-08-10T01:52:25Z")
**Bob Cos** > [@](#): > > This is absolutely consistent with what is now being reported, is it not? Actually you’re not quite getting it. What was the evidence that convinced Powell to say that to the UN? If we squeeze something out of some prisoner now it can’t be fairly used to justify past events. If this prisoner’s confession is all we have then Powell was clearly bullshitting the UN previously. All he can say now is “We guessed right” if this lead pans out(which it probably won’t) ps to **monstro2\_2001**. Being derisive is only really effective from a position of authority or respect. IOW, give it up. ---
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/36 "2003-08-10T01:54:50Z")
Though I suppose that if the report was publicly released the credibility of the Herald Sun doesn’t enter the picture. But is this story being reported on any American news site? ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/37 "2003-08-10T02:17:44Z")
There’s something very fishy about this. **december** ’s story contains the following: > [@](#): > > “\*\*A senior al-Qaeda terrorist, now detained, who had been responsible for al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, reports that al-Qaeda was intent on obtaining \*\*(weapons of mass destruction) **assistance from Iraq** ,” the White House said in a report. > > The 25 page document was released as US President George W Bush holidayed at his Texas ranch. But if you google the quoted part, what turns up is [this](http://bond.senate.gov/powellinfo.cfm): > [@](#): > > **February 5, 2003** > > Iraq’s ‘Evasion and Deception’ - What Powell Outlined to the UN > > Today, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a thorough and deeply troubling case that Saddam Hussein and his regime: > > - Possess weapons of mass destruction > > - Are working to acquire more and more lethal WMD > > - Continue to hide current stocks and procurement efforts > > - Continue to harbor and sponsor terrorists > > - Continue to abuse the human rights of the Iraqi people > > - Have made no attempt to disarm as required by Security Council Resolution 1441. > > \ > > As the Secretary said, there is more: > > **A senior al-Qaida terrorist, now detained, who had been responsible for bin Ladin’s training in Afghanistan, reports that al-Qaida was intent on obtaining WMD assistance from Iraq.** So this new evidence: a) isn’t new b) has already been shown to be bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/38 "2003-08-10T02:38:41Z")
Very good question **CyberPundit**. Like I asked someone else in another thread **december** , Got an Abraham Link-coln? I can’t find any corroborating stories in any reputable news sites. . . nor at Faux News Channel and Washington Moony-Times. Here is what a search at [www.whitehouse.gov](http://www.whitehouse.gov) for [Abu Musab al-Zarqawi](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030701-13.html) Upon preview I find this is just another rope-a-dope, waste-of-bandwith OP from **december** :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/39 "2003-08-10T02:46:11Z")
Here’s the report that the news story refers to: [10 Ways the Liberation of Iraq Supports the War on Terror](http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/100days/part1.html) > [@](#): > > 1. With the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq is no longer a state sponsor of terror. According to State Department reports on terrorism, before the removal of Saddam’s regime, Iraq was one of seven state sponsors of terror. > > 2. Saddam Hussein’s regime posed a threat to the security of the United States and the world. With the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime, a leader who pursued, used, and possessed weapons of mass destruction is no longer in power. > > 3. Saddam Hussein would not uphold his international commitments, and now that he is no longer in power, the world is safe from this tyrant. The old Iraqi regime defied the international community and seventeen UN resolutions for twelve years and gave every indication that it would never disarm and never comply with the just demands of the world. > > 4. A senior al Qaida terrorist, now detained, who had been responsible for al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan, reports that al Qaida was intent on obtaining WMD assistance from Iraq. According to a credible, high-level al Qaida source, Usama Bin Laden and deceased al Qaida leader Muhammad Atif did not believe that al Qaida labs in Afghanistan were capable of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons, so they turned to Iraq for assistance. Iraq agreed to provide chemical and biological weapons training for two al Qaida associates starting in December 2000. > > 5. Senior al Qaida associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment along with approximately two dozen al Qaida terrorist associates. This group stayed in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq and plotted terrorist attacks around the world. > > 6. A safe haven in Iraq belonging to Ansar al-Islam – a terrorist group closely associated with Zarqawi and al Qaida – was destroyed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In March 2003, during a raid on the compound controlled by the terrorists in northeastern Iraq, a cache of documents was discovered, including computer discs and foreign passports belonging to fighters from various Middle East nationalities. > > 7. The al Qaida affiliate Ansar al-Islam is known to still be present in Iraq. Such terrorist groups are now plotting against U.S. forces in Iraq. > > 8. Law enforcement and intelligence operations have disrupted al Qaida associate Abu Musab Zarqawi’s poison plotting in France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Russia. The facilities in Northern Iraq, set up by Zarqawi and Ansar al-Islam were, before the war, an al Qaida’s poisons/toxins laboratory. > > 9. Abu Musa Zarqawi, the al Qaida associate with direct links to Iraq, oversaw those responsible for the assassination of USAID officer Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan last October. > > 10. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq provided material assistance to Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, HAMAS, and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, according to a State Department report. This included paying the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, according to testimonials from Palestinians and cancelled checks. Also, according to State Department reports, terrorist groups the Iranian Mujahedin-e-Khalq and the Abu Nidal organization were protected by the Iraqi regime protected by the Iraqi regime. It’s the same tired lies from GWB. I can’t hold **december** responsible for falling for it, though. It’s deliberate deception on GWB’s part. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072/40 "2003-08-10T02:48:44Z")
Wow, I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt except for the last paragraph which shows it has at least been edited since May. The byline says “From correspondents in Crawford, Texas” which I assume means someone hanging around the ranch. What does it all mean? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iraq-supplied-al-qaeda-with-wmds-does-this-report-justify-the-war/194072.md?page=3)