In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bush uses his renowned idiocy as a shield against his blatant lies
Wrong Abu the terrorist haunts Bush on campaign trailWASHINGTON (AFP) - He was Abu, all right. And a ruthless terror mastermind to boot. But the man whose name has been migrating from one of President George W. Bush's stump speech to another for weeks now had little to do with the crime he is being accused of.Never Mind? Bush is lying again... out right lying... to sell a war and all the anger and indignation we can muster is "never mind."
At least that was the conclusion of US government and international terrorism experts -- and US courts - back in the 1980s when that dark deed was perpetrated.
Never mind. He surfaced again on Monday as Bush, campaigning in Derry, New Hampshire, again defended his decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- this time evoking ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's alleged terrorist connections.
'He was a sworn enemy of the United States of America, he had ties to terrorist networks,' Bush argued. 'Do you remember Abu Nidal? He's the guy that killed Leon Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was murdered because of his religion. Abu Nidal was in Baghdad, as was his organization.'
The president was referring to the 1985 hijacking by Palestinian militants of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, during which Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly American tourist, was shot and pushed overboard into the sea.
But these hijackers were led not by Abu Nidal, but by Abu Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Front, who released the ship after securing safe passage for himself and his men for Tunisia. "Abbas, who had been indicted for the Klinghoffer murder in the United States, was captured by US troops in Baghdad soon after they seized the Iraqi capital in April 2003. But he died in March in prison, possibly of a heart attack.So Nidal, who Bush says was a great find in Iraq and proof of Saddam's connection with terrorists was in fact killed by Saddam years before we invaded. And people say reality television doesn't reflect reality.
To be sure, the Abu from the president's speeches also died Baghdad, but long before the US-led invasion and, some say, at the hands of Saddam's security agents.
Abu Nidal and his followers, who believed that then Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites) leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was too soft on Israel, are blamed for more than 90 terrorist attacks in 20 countries, killing or injuring almost 900 people, according to US officials.
But the 65-year-old terrorist was found with multiple gunshot wounds at his Baghdad home in August 2002. And Klinghoffer, terrorism experts agree, was not among his victims.
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