RUSH: Here's Mark in Chicago. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Welcome.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Another long-time listener, first-time caller.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
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CALLER: I wanted to call and comment on some of the information that the media leaves out about these Iraq Al-Qaeda links, particularly when they got on the warpath right after you interviewed Cheney about this subject.
RUSH: That's right. They did get on the warpath after Cheney appeared on this program, and they've stayed on it.
CALLER: They've been on it for a few years but these stories always leave out the 1998 trip that Ayman al-Zawahiri made to Baghdad and received $300,000 from either Saddam himself, or someone in their -- right underneath him, and this has been confirmed by a couple Clinton officials, including Buzz Patterson. Another note that hasn't really been mentioned by anyone in the media is that hundreds of members of Saddam's regime, including a lot of his top guys like Izzat Al-Douri, have admitted working with Zarqawi and Al-Qaeda since the invasion and hundreds of them have been caught. There's a couple websites that do detail this.
Just to let you know about Buzz Patterson's relationship to reality, here's a quote from July 6, 2005:
"The war is being won, if not already won, I think," Patterson, who is retired from the U.S. Air Force, said. "[Iraq] is stabilized and we want the soldiers themselves to tell the story."
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Well, I know the conventional wisdom is that Saddam had no links to terrorism or al Qaeda but I am about to release a book on this topic based on four years of research and the links are legit.
There's been hundreds of members of Hussein's regime who have been caught working for al Qaeda in Iraq and in Afghanistan including former Saddam right hand man Izzat al Douri.
Forgive me if I take the word of the guys actually being discussed instead of yours based on shallow media reports.
OK, where's the book?
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