Re: 50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim

Pat Kohli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Paul Hammond wrote:
> 
> >
> > One could wish that other decisions (like the one to cultivate
> > the Taliban against warlords and soviets) had been taken
> > otherwise, but as to the intelligence services in various
> > countries, and their fore-knowledge of the September 11th
> > attack, the worst that can be laid at their door is
> > incompetence, not connivance.  There seems to be some
> > concern over different parts of intelligence gathering
> > being put together - then, of course, there is the
> > advantage of hindsight - when you already know which
> > plots are real, and which just rumours, it is much
> > easier to go back and sort the real information on
> > a conspiracy from the rumours and plans that came to
> > nothing.
> 
> It doesn't help when the government is in the thick of the rumour-mongering; a 
> significant number of Americans believe high
> government officials that Iraq had something to do with the attacks against the US 
> in September 01..
> 

Well.

Bush was suggesting that Saddam had something to do with
Al-Qaida when he still needed to convince people he had
a good reason to go in on Iraq.  Since the war, he has
been saying that everyone always knew that Saddam and
Al-Qaida were not working together like everyone
always knew that, and he'd never said any different.

I guess that's just politics.

Paul