Albright, Kennedy, Gore and Kerry, Liars?

The news I discussed below on the latest evidence of Saddam’s terrorist training camps provides an opportunity to ask if the leading critics of the Administration’s Iraq policy have been lying:

“I never believed in the link between Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism,” former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright flatly declared in an October 21, 2003 essay published in Australia’s Melbourne Herald Sun.

“Iraq was not a breeding ground for terrorism. Our invasion has made it one,” Senator Ted Kennedy said October 16, 2003. “We were told Iraq was attracting terrorists from Al Qaeda. It was not.”

In August 2003, former vice president Albert Gore reassuringly stated: “The evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama bin Laden at all.”

Even those who would be President of the United States cast doubts. “Iraq was not a terrorist haven before the invasion,” Democratic candidate John Kerry told Philadelphia voters September 24. At the September 30, 2004 presidential debate, Kerry asserted, “Iraq was not even close to the center of the War on Terror before the president invaded it.”

Quotes are courtesy of Saddam Hussein’s Philanthropy of Terror, which has details and links for each of these quotes, and quite a bit more information about Saddam’s links to terror.

Will Kerry issue an apology? Will the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, or other mainstream media cover this story, and ask Albright, Kennedy, Gore, and Kerry why they lied?

I won’t hold my breath.