Bush linked Hussein with al-Qaida

I suggest the president and his men knew that there was no real evidence that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden collaborated on the 9/11 attack. That is evident in the great care they took in the statements they made on the issue. I suggest further that they wanted the American people to believe there was collaboration because those same careful statements often had al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein expressed in one breath or one sentence or one thought. This tied the two together so that many Americans would continue to think Hussein was behind 9/11 along with Osama.

It’s an old advertiser’s trick and this administration by MBAs know them all. When I say “Burma Shave,” you immediately think shaving cream or rhymes. When I say “It’s the water,” you think Olympia beer. When George or Dick or Paul or Don say Hussein, far too many of us still think 9/11 and al- Qaida. And those who do tend to support both the war and the Republican ticket. That was the whole idea.

BENITA HELSETH

Lake Stevens