[Austin Willard Wright]

No offense intended but this always the fall-back approach of pro-war folks who make the humanitarian argument on Iraq (usually to guilt trip opponents as somehow apologists for dictators if they questioned the need for war). First, they make a purely humanitarian argument for intervention then, when pressed, switch to a national security argument. This strikes me as a very loose and inconsistent argumentative approach.

BTW, please name the "Iraqis" who crashed planes in to the WTC?

[Britton J Wingfield]

How about if I just name Iraq-hosted terrorists who have definitely killed Americans?

Abu Abbas and Abu Nadal come to mind.

[Keith]

I think I make the connection with Abu Nidal, who was killed in Baghdad during the war, and the Boeing plane at Salman Pak which some reports connect with training Al Qaida guys on how to commandeer a plane...

I also include Hussein's payment to Palestinian suicide bomber families...

...I also still think the fact that Vaclav Havel still thinks there is reason to believe the story of Atta meeting with an Iraqi intel guy in Prague fits here....

...it's all part of the war on terror big guy..."You are either with us, or with the terrorists."

They ain't wearing team uniforms this war, buddy, but I know who some of them are...and we pulled one of them out of a spider hole in December. No post-war justification here.