The Bush Administration claimed Iraq was responsible for 9/11.
It's always difficult to prove a negative, but that simply never happened.
Many people may believe this was the case because in "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore truncated a comment by Condi Rice in order to deliberately give viewers of his movie that false impression. Here's the quote as it appeared in the film:
Quote:"There is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11"
Now here's the full quote:
Quote:"Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York."
Setting aside Moore's little deceit, there just aren't any quotations I've ever seen from anyone in the Bush administration saying that Saddam was responsible for 9/11. That's why, in a piece called "Answering 50 Frequently Asked Questions About The War On Terrorism," which incidentally was written about a week before the war began, I wrote this:
Quote:The Bush administration has never claimed that Iraq was involved in 9/11...
Furthermore, after the war had begun, in September of 2003, President Bush himself publicly & explicitly said:
Quote:"We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11 September attacks."
It doesn't get much clearer than that.
Source for lie #3 including links.
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