"The Mother of All Connections"

Okay so...Saddam and his regime are likely tied to occasionally funding or supporting terrorist activities.

How does this provide a sound basis for attacking Iraq in the name of 'hunting down, capturing, or killing' terrorists?

 

Let's see here, one Iraqi soldier gets recruited into al Qaida and that makes Saddam Hussein responsible 'cause he was so all-seeing and all-powerful that he was personally responsible for everything that happened within his borders. That, in turn, gives the US, the UK & Oz the moral imperative to destroy the country and kill countless, literally per military policy, innocent civilians as collateral damage. Of course, most of them are Moslems, not to mention foreigners, so how innocent can they be, really.

Ok, why not? As the 800-lb gorilla, we can do pretty much as we want. If you don't care for our justifications, you obviously don't support the soldiers who are dying for your sake and you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. You should be either shot, hanged or held incommunicado for the duration. Freedom of speech should not extend to criticizing the president and the military....because our enemies would like that, they would take comfort in that.

The good citizens of Iraq shouldn't mind the death and destruction because they got to vote for unnamed candidates off a list determined by the destroyers of their country. Those elected have appointed a government so heavily salted with Shiite clerics that it appears the shari'ia will be written into the new constitution. Under the Ba'athists, equal rights for women were only nominal anyway, so what is the big deal if that goes away? The US does just fine without them.

 

There is and was no direct connection between 9/11 and Saddam. There's just no smoking gun.

 

What have "the Clintons" to do with deciding that al Qaida operated out of Iraq?

Sen. Clinton did vote in favor of giving President Bush war powers to invade Iraq; so as far as that goes, she is as responsible as the other senators.

 

Just as we know that prior to 1991 Saddam was a U.S. asset. Many of the hundreds of thousands of deaths we now blame his regime for were directly supported and sponsored by our very own government.

Brief history lesson

Seeing as how the various terrorist organizations are not represented by any particular country doesn't the Iraq invasion seem rather arbitrary? It isn't as though this war has exactly been a smashing success against Al Qaeda and Co. now has it?

How long until we can collectively agree that this war has not made the united States and the west a safer place?

 

It is a long war which has not combated terrorism in the least. Why? Because Saddam's ties to international terrorism were at best negligible.

 

Insufficient, imho, yes.

Obviously Bill was mistaken. Sen. Clinton voted not to go to war, but to give the President the discretion to do so. Perhaps, she wrongly supposed that he wouldn't do it on a lie or insufficient evidence.

I haven't seen it. Was there more cooperation between Iraq and al Qaeda than there was between the US and al Qaeda?

I doubt the reason had anything whatsoever to do with making us New Yorkers safer.

Yeah, right - 45 mins away from the mushroom cloud!

We know that Saddam was totally incapable of building an atomic bomb and did not buy any yellowcake and did not have the means to refine it had he been able to. In other words, containment, oversight and interantional cooperation was actually working!

 

Sorry I don't see the connection.

 

Maybe that rxplains why we've NEVER put anyone on trial for supporting the 9/11 attack. Look how the UK has quickly followed up on leads to those involved in the attack in London. Doesn't anyone find it a little strange that 9/11 just went away without any judicial action? I suppose since this war is going to go on ad infinitum we'll never try anyone, just hold there without legal support or even accuse them of anything.

 

Hey, whatever serves as the pretext for blowing towel heads sky high and pushing our freedom loving, capitalist dogma on the rest of the world works for me.