claim: obama says clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-qaida and the iraqi government.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: aug 11, 2016 ... and there's the fact that president george w. bush had signed the ... and i would  say the co-founder would be crooked hillary clinton, co-founder. ... in fact, trump  expressed mild support in september 2002 for invading iraq in an ... by october  2004, zarqawi's group was known as al qaeda in iraq. he took ...
evidence_2: jan 4, 2016 ... peter bergen says there's little factual support for donald trump's ... so how did  al qaeda in iraq surge back as isis? ... would the iraqi government have allowed  such a presence? .... of course clinton helped form and fuel the growth of is, she  voted for the 2002 iraq war resolution which led to the invasion ...
evidence_3: mar 19, 2015 ... "we do have solid evidence of the presence in iraq of al qaeda members, ... but  the nie said its information about a working relationship between al qaeda and  iraq ... the nie suggests that the cia had sources within the media to ... top iraqi  government officials held during the 1990s and 2002 — but some ...
evidence_4: the first drafts of history are, by their nature, fragmentary. .... told evidence  against al qaeda overwhelming, bush asks for “any shred” saddam was  involved. .... to establish a link between iraq and al qaida is so far frankly  unconvincing… ... june 2002, to a deputy raising doubts about iraq war, rice  says: “save your breath ...
evidence_5: but to suggest somehow that our mailing is somehow different from the kinds of ...  obama: that is a genuine difference between myself and senator clinton. ..... this  administration did exactly that and took out the third-ranking al qaida official. ...  obama: well, if the iraqi government says that we should not be there, then we ...