While interviewing Mayor Giuliani last night on MSNBC, Matthews stated:
…let me just make this historic point, which is factual. Osama bin Laden offered the Saudi Arabian government his strength, his powers, to the extent he had them, to defend them if there was an attack by Iraq, by Saddam Hussein. Before all this hell has broken loose the last couple of years, before we went to war in Iraq, Saddam Hussein and Islam and bin Laden were enemies. We brought them together. But how can you say that Saddam Hussein was in league with bin Laden, when bun bin offered Saudi Arabia to defend them against him?
True enough. But as Stephen Hayes point out, Matthews didn’t tell the whole story.
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