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It's all about 9/11 (Iraq's links to AQ)
National Review ^ | June 29, 2005 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 06/29/2005 10:27:29 AM PDT by Peach

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To: MurryMom

I'm sure you also noted that the trrops were orderded not to applaud during the speech by their commanding officers... Of course you did!

It is really despicaable that libs seeking political advantage by trying to undermine our mission in Iraq and the WOT generally are encouraging the terrorist, endangering our troops.

Absolutly beneath contempt.


121 posted on 06/29/2005 5:03:31 PM PDT by Leto
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

She won't answer; she's the cut and run type.


122 posted on 06/29/2005 5:05:11 PM PDT by Peach
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

123 posted on 06/29/2005 5:05:44 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Peach; Blurblogger

People such as this poster do not realize that terrorism is not war in the real sense. Terrorists lack military resources to conduct a legitimate battle. This is a psych game, it's an attempt to fight the minds of the opposition. Suicide missions by single individuals define the extent of their army. They hide in hills, seek refuge in Iran, and complete the work of dictators. They locate brainwashed recruits to literally give their lives for stories of lifetime adventure with beautiful women. They murder children... They do not have an opportunity to win other than the enemy surrendering.


124 posted on 06/29/2005 5:20:07 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection (http://hour9.blogspot.com/)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Well said, TC.


125 posted on 06/29/2005 5:22:15 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Marine_Uncle
Prayer call. She had to kneel on her prayer rug that contains a icon of FDR and Lenin, and recite her daily prayers to a statue of Trosky.

ROFLMAO!!!

126 posted on 06/29/2005 6:19:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Peach

"She won't answer; she's the cut and run type.'

Perhaps she is an al Qaeda operative. They seem well trained at cutting and running. Knife and boots. That's their trade.


127 posted on 06/29/2005 6:55:51 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: MurryMom
Sure the stock market reached its peak in 2000, but unemployment didn't start to turn down until after BushCo took over

Oh come on MurryMom you know as well as anyone else that the first term of any President is affected by the previous President.

Your post didn't identify anything Bush has done to make your life better, either. It's tough to defend bankrupt policies, isn't it?

Here let me help out your liberal mind with a word you are completley unfamiliar with Freedom,Freedom for you to be a liberal moron!Freedom for the Iraqi people means a more stable Freedom for my Family. Why do you hate America so? Why is it all about money for you? Freedom gives you the chance to earn more money and help the economy thrive.

I don't know how your Check from the government looks but mine from my private employeer is more on the takehome side because of hold your breath Bush tax-cuts. I know that the tax-cuts keep you and your liberal friends from buying keyboards with shift keys but I get to take more money home or invest more in my 401k.

What else has President Bush done for me? Well he has made me and many other people all over the world Respect the Presidency again. I know this is a shock to you but people like to respect thier leader and not think of him getting oral sex in his office or cheat on his wife,Or be a serial rapist People like a President that says he believes in God and mean it.You my liberal friend miss the point though I don't need the president or the Government to do ANYTHING for me except leave me alone and quit taking more than they do from my paycheck so liberals like you don't have to work, but can live off of me.

128 posted on 06/29/2005 7:58:56 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (<><)
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To: Rightly Biased

You waste your words of wisdom on her. Can't figure why these type folks even subscribe to this site.


129 posted on 06/29/2005 9:34:09 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Marine_Uncle

MurryMom has been here for a while those kind of people usually get banned but Jim Rob lets her stay I guess every family needs a crazy cat lady. I just never let her get the last word. She reads the replies and you can tell when you get the best of her cause she doesn't reply.


130 posted on 06/30/2005 5:59:00 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (<><)
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To: Peach

Thanks for posting this excellent piece.


131 posted on 06/30/2005 6:54:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Turbo Pig

The left's reply to al the above proof:

"Nuh uh, Bush is evil"

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Yep. While holding their hands over their ears. The Democratic party = the enemy within.


132 posted on 06/30/2005 6:56:11 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Bigg Red

You're very welcome, Bigg Red.


133 posted on 06/30/2005 6:59:03 AM PDT by Peach
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To: billbears

Donna Brazile???!!!

&&
Wasup widdat?


134 posted on 06/30/2005 6:59:52 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: mewzilla

Good answer to MurryMom. That clymer is still around, huh? I have always said that she is one of Hitlery's staffers.


135 posted on 06/30/2005 7:04:22 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Any organization that counts Richard Perle and William Kristol as two of its key figures has less credibility than NAMBLA, as far as I'm concerned.

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Good point!


136 posted on 06/30/2005 7:06:56 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Bigg Red

Of course, but you're not supposed to actually point out who's sitting on that board. As the nonsensical rhetoric backs up the Republican position, anything reported by them must by default be true...in reality it's just a rehashed PNAC and not much else


137 posted on 06/30/2005 7:07:17 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: Eagles6

There are a few DURTs( dim under the radar trolls) on FR today...

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I like your acronym. I would be willing to bet that most of those DURTbags are Rat staffers.


138 posted on 06/30/2005 7:09:20 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Peach

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,97063,00.html

The Connection Between 9/11 and Iraq

Thursday, September 11, 2003



This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, September 10, that has been edited for clarity.

Watch Special Report With Brit Hume weeknights at 6 p.m. ET

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HOWARD DEAN, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH, D-OHIO, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11.

SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, D-FLA, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: President knew or should have known that there was no relationship between 9-11. There was no relationship between Usama Been Forgotten and Saddam Hussein.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BRIT HUME, HOST: It's an applause line. And in that case, a laughter line for the Democrats in their presidential debates. There you heard it from Howard Dean (search), from Dennis Kucinich (search) and finally, there from Senator Bob Graham (search) of Florida, the flat out statement…definitive statement, no connection between 9-11 and Iraq.

Well, certainly the administration has never claimed a connection, but is it that clear that it is definite there was not? For more on this, we turn now to FOX News foreign affairs analyst, Mansoor Ijaz, who joins us now from Berlin; the man with the best sources we know of anybody on these kinds of issues.

Mansoor, welcome. And tell us, first of all, your sense about whether it is…whether it can be definitively stated as a fact that there was no…9-11 connection to Iraq.

MANSOOR IJAZ, FOX NEWS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, Brit, I'll first…I'll say to you that with regard to Howard Dean and Congressman Kucinich, you have to forgive them because they don't know any better. But I was surprised to hear Bob Graham say that since he sat in a senior position on the Senate Intelligence Committee during the course of these events.

The fact of the matter is that as early as 1994, but certainly proof positive as of 1998, the connection between Al Qaeda (search) and Saddam Hussein was very clear. In February and March of 1998, bin Laden's No. 2 guy visited Baghdad at the request of the intelligence services of Iraq.

And he was living in Khartoum at the time at the very moment that the Sudanese intelligence chief was begging the FBI in hand written notes that were carried back and forth to come to the Sudan and look at what the data was that they had, who they were dealing with, how bin Laden's people were moving around, which ones were moving where and what they were doing.

There is no and, if's, or but's about the fact that there was a connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that early.

Now, the real question is what did they do in that two and a half weeks that they sat there and planned and plotted with each other?

We know that exactly six weeks after the meetings took place, a letter came from the FBI to the Sudanese saying we can't help you. We're not allowed to come and look at this stuff. And then six weeks after that, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed and the Sudanese Embassy was cased.

So I would say that these people who make that kind of an argument have really no idea what the facts are. Nor do they understand what the mendacity of Saddam was to use al Qaeda for his benefit and his purposes in carrying out terrorist attacks in other parts of the world.

HUME: Well, certainly that makes pretty good circumstantial evidence on the attacks on those embassies. And it does suggest from what you have said that there have been contacts at a high level, important level, between al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. But what about something that would suggest a connection to 9-11, is there evidence there of any consequence?

IJAZ: Absolutely, and now let's take it a step further after the 1998 bombings. We then know there was a training camp called Salman Pak, which we've been able to identify the aircraft that they trained, the hijackers on. We've been able to identify other contacts between Iraqi intelligence services and directly with the 9-11 hijackers.

People would love to shove that evidence under the carpet, but the fact of the matter is that the meetings did take place, planning was going on. The Iraqi diplomatic pouch was the tool of choice to pass al Qaeda's messages around the world in different parts of the world.

There was…we know for a fact that the Philippines' embassy of Iraq in manila was used for purposes of planning what was then a thwarted effort to try and hijack airplanes across the Pacific. We know that the Pakistani…I mean, the Iraqi Embassy in Islamabad was used to facilitate contact between the Taliban, bin Laden's people, and Iraqi senior scientists to collaborate on chemical and biological weapons. I know that for a fact myself that that was going on.

So, there is just no way that anybody can convince me that there is no connection. We have not yet found the forensic tie. That may be true. But to say that there's no connection whatsoever, that is absolutely not true.

HUME: Why is it that the Bush administration, in your view, has not stressed this terrorist connection more? It did for a while, but since the appeal that was made for the U.N. resolutions back last fall, you haven't heard much from the administration on this connection from.

IJAZ: You know, Brit, that's sort of a tough question to answer in one sense. But let me give you my opinion about that. That is, the Bush administration has their hands full trying to solve the problems on the ground in Iraq right now.

They did the best that they could to and try to lay everything out. They tried to make the case to the American people. I think they made a darn good case. And when they executed what they needed to and the evidence was there. The fact is that we found evidence after the war was over that this was going on.

And so for me, it's very clear what was happening. If the Democrats don't want to accept that, they're not going to win office next time if they keep this up, because the American people are too smart to let this go on forever.

HUME: Mansoor, thank you. Always a pleasure to have you.


139 posted on 06/30/2005 7:13:21 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: Marine_Uncle

During the Clinton-Gore years we all had jobs, during the Bush years all 4 of us lost at least one job. "


Since when is it the Presidents duty to keep people employed. Find another job and do something with your life. Get a grip. My Grandfather came here from Italy dirt poor and saved enough money to buy a home and had his own shoe business. He did not knock on the White House door when he arrived. Idiots!

Whiny idiots can't do anything for themselves but blame other people for their misery.


140 posted on 06/30/2005 7:16:49 AM PDT by angcat
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