9/11 panel plays at terror games . . .

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The 9/11 Commission is once again engaged in partisan word games that have little to do with their supposed mission and everything to do with bringing down the Bush administration.

It's a tried and true technique: Set up the proverbial straw man, then knock him down.

So when the commission finds, ``We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States,'' it is logical to ask, who said it did?

Never, in all the months leading up to the war in Iraq, did President Bush or Secretary of State Colin Powell or anyone in the administration make that allegation. In fact, last September Bush said quite explicitly, ``No, we've had no evidence Saddam Hussein was involved in Sept. 11.''

On the other hand, Bush has also been clear before the war and now that as he said on Feb. 8, 2003, ``Saddam Hussein has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist networks.''

And from this John Kerry concludes Bush ``misled'' the American people?

Its straw-man technique aside, the commission report at times appears hopelessly naive in its attempt to exonerate Saddam and find him innocent of further links to Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network.

http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=32294

the partisan commision that bush hand picked. what absouLute, Lying douchebags.