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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
It's not an outright lie to say al-Qaeda wasn't a threat against us in Iraq prior to our invasion. In fact an AQI chapter didn't exist until after the invasion. The al-Qaeda camp there didn't call itself al-Qaeda in Iraq until after it was clear our invasion was killing more Iraqis than Saddam was. The ugly truth of al-Qaeda's presence in Iraq is that the U.S. and U.K. openly tolerated it and even protected them from the air [northern no-fly zone].
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That's not what they are saying. They are saying they weren't there, which is a lie. They were. The 9/11 commission report confirmed it.
The toleration of AQ was because we had worked
WITH them in Afghanistan. Remember?
Someone who is running for President of the United States shouldn't be lying just to further their agenda, because afterall, that's exactly part of the fault the left has found with Bush et al. Or is it only wrong when a repub does it?