Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Pinning It on Iraq

The clip Pinning it on Iraq from Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

You come in September 12th...
You come in September 12th...
...to plot our response to al Qaeda. Let me talk about the response...
...you got from top administration officials.
On that day, what did the president say to you?
The president, in a very intimidating way, left me and my staff...
...with the clear indication he wanted us to come back...
...with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9l11.
They planned to do something about Iraq before they came into office.
Did he ask about any other nations other than Iraq?
No, not at all. It was, "Iraq, Saddam, find out, get back to me."
Were his questions more about Iraq than al Qaeda?
Absolutely. He didn't ask me about al Qaeda.
And the reaction you got from the defense secretary, Rumsfeld...
...from his assistant, Paul Wolfowitz?
Donald Rumsfeld said... When we talked about bombing...
...the al Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan...
...he said, "There are no good targets in Afghanistan.
Let's bomb Iraq."
And we said, "But Iraq had nothing to do with this."
That didn't make much difference. The reason they had...
...to do Afghanistan first was, it was obvious al Qaeda attacked us.
And it was obvious that al Qaeda was in Afghanistan.
Americans wouldn't stand by if we'd done nothing on Afghanistan.

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