Martha Raddatz of ABC News interviewed President Bush on 14 December; you can view the video (a little over 8 minutes long) after watching an ad.
Bush makes the point that foreign terrorists have not attacked the USA since 9/11. Over seven years, right? Seems to me that foreign terrorists had not attacked the USA in the seven years preceding 9/11. Your point, Mr. President? Perhaps 9/11 would have been just another late summer day if your administration had not been asleep at the switch.
The most incredulous part of the interview is Bush trumpeting the fact that al-Qaeda in Iraq was defeated after it decided to "take a stand" in Iraq. The intrepid Raddatz correctly pointed out that al-Qaeda was not in Iraq until we invaded.
Bush's response: "Yeah, that's right. So what?"
And of course, he denies linking 9/11 to Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
Seventeen more days.
"We know that Iraq and al-Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al-Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al-Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases." - President George W. Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat; Remarks by the President on Iraq, White House 7 October 2002
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