“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.”

— Condoleezza Rice

CBS News http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4386, November 28, 2003.

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