“The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.”Bush, Cheney and Tenet were big on forgeries leading up to the Iraq invasion. If you remember, the document Bush used to lie to the nation in his 2003 SOTU about yellowcake uranium from Niger was also a forgery.
They knew those Niger documents were bogus. In fact, from the looks of it, they probably had them forged, too.
We need a war crimes tribunal.
