Posted on 06/06/2007 6:14:12 AM PDT by ikez78
WASHINGTON – It has been denied, downplayed, overlooked, forgotten, disregarded and omitted from the public record.
But a thorough review of open-source material demonstrates conclusive and widespread cooperation between former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime and terrorists from the Iraqi al-Qaida network.
Dozens of former Saddam Hussein loyalists captured by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq were found to be working with al-Qaida or linked to their operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Saddam and terrorism PING
bttt
So what? The problem is that American troops are getting blown up just standing by the roadside. There is no “war” to fight. We have misplayed the military hand. Who cares if we can justify it?
Excellent article. The most surprising thing in the Iraqi documents is that they showed much stronger relationship between Saddam regime and islamic terrorism including Al Qaeda than anyone ever thought before.
Or just should I call you “Ambassador Vinomori” because you work at State Department and are disgruntled that the Bush team neocons ignored your proposals for a diplomatic solution to neutralizing an Iraqi govt that was defying 17 UN resolutions and actively but surreptitiously aiding and abetting sworn enemies of America who had managed to kill 3000 American civilians on US homeland soil in a 3 hour period?
Anyhow. it’s nice hearin’ from ya. I’m sure those soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan welcome the opportunity to give their lives for your right to think and say any damn dumb thing you want to.
God bless our troops.
Dick Cheney has been adamant about the intelligence backing the links. Also James Woolsey (former Clinton-ear CIA director)
lol
World Nut Daily beating a dead horse with imaginary links again I see. Nothing new. Funny though. If everything was going peachy in Iraq, why is Crazy Joe still trying to make justification for going to Iraq in the first place?
Correct.
John, John McCain—Is that you???
Well I don’t think a guy sitting at home in the U.S. is hurting the troops and Generals in Iraq trying to accomplish things and moving forward.
It’s not possible to examine history anymore unless a war is over?
beating a dead horse?
Ok...
BTW, what is your definition of “peachy” conditions in Iraq? The pre-war conditions? The conditions where Saddam and his psychopath thug sons were picking Iraqi citizens off the streets and out of their villages in droves for the sheer joy of torture? The situation where the USAF/USN were flying air sorties (and being shot at) 24/7 to try and enforce 17 UN resolutions and economic sanctions the libs decried as killing Iraqi children? The situation where Saddam was selling Iraq’s oil to pay bribes to the UN officials to keep up a charade of concern about ongoing WMD research and human rights violations of genocidal proportion? The situation where some of that oil money was going into the hands of terrorist to train jihadis to blow up American aircraft. ships embassies and cities?
Those peachy conditions?
LLS
And exactly where is it in the Constitution it is our business to enforce resolutions of a world government. They want their resolutions enforced, let them do it.
Ya know, just plain old common sense tells you that there was a connection simply by how fast the Sunnis and Baathist officials aligned themselves with Abu Musab al Zarqawi to fight the “occupation.”
And it's already known that Abu Musab al Zarqawi came to Iraq after Afghanistan fell. and that they assinated US diplomat Foley in Jordan while it was planned from Iraq and they planned the foiled chemical attack in Jordan which was to strike both Jordan and American intersts. All this before the start of the Iraq war.
Have I ever shown you this link? It's the actual transcript of the confession from Jordan TV from al Zarqawi's men about the planned chemical attack on Jordan. They clearly establish that al-Qaeda was in Iraq and planning and carrying out attacks against US interests from Iraqi soil since before the start of the Iraq War.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
[Full text of confession]Al Qaeda Plans Terrorist Attack in Chemical Weapons against Jordan
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