In case you missed it over the weekend, an underreported news story indicated that Vladimir Putin, former head of the KGB, said that he had reported to George Bush shortly after 9-11 that Iraq was also preparing terrorist attacks against the U.S.
Say again? Where has that little nugget of news been for the last 2 1/2 years?
I'm guessing that the Bush administration wanted to go public with that news before the War, but held back to keep from comprimising intellegence sources. I don't know that as fact. I'm conjecturing here.
If that news was well know before the start of the Iraq War do you think there would be any question as to whether invading Iraq was justified?
And now that it is known, do Democrats have any leg to stand on as they pound on their allegation that Bush exagerated the Iraqi threat in the War on Terrorism?
And why is this story coming out now? What does Putin have to gain by publicly speaking up now?
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