Posted on 09/11/2006 11:51:13 AM PDT by future F22 pilot
I am a high school junior and currently have a teacher who believes Al Qaeda and Iraq are not linked. I would like documents proving links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, documents of democrats declaring Iraq as dangerous, documents listing numbers of terrorists (islamo-fascitsts) killed, documents with numbers of Iraqis killed under Saddam, and documents of foreign inteligence agencies declaring Iraq was seeking WMD's.
I want to thankyou all for all your help, and of course it would be nice if the sources were well-respected, but any documents can be helpful. Also documents proving bias of the MSM would also be helpful. Thank You.
That link right there is all you need.
thanks
Yes it is really all you need. Remember to distinguish between a direct link between the 911 attacks and Iraq, and an Al Queda and Iraw connection. Look up Salman Pak while you're at it.
"Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance -- not even today -- of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
Dr. Hans Blix, Chief UN Weapons Inspector
Addressing the UN Security Council
January 27, 2003
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnewsiraq.asp?NewsID=354&sID=6
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/27/sprj.irq.transcript.blix
Osama and Saddam Worked Together for Years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
It won't matter anyway. If your teacher is a lib, there is no cure.
Actually, I'm wrong. I used to be a mush headed liberal but saw the light. I'm just not optimistic about educators making the change.
Was this teacher presenting this as an opinion or fact?
Ask your teacher to reveal the source of that information. Ask for specific data. Search this sight using key words such as "Saddam terrorists" or "Iraq terrorists" and think up your own.
We Must Be Firm with Saddam Hussein
November 9, 1997 John Kerry's speech on the floor of the Senate:
"We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation. If he remains obdurate, I believe that the United Nations must take, and should authorize immediately, whatever steps are necessary to force him to relent--and that the United States should support and participate in those steps.We must not presume that these conclusions automatically will be accepted by every one of our allies, some of which have different interests both in the region and elsewhere, or will be of the same degree of concern to them that they are to the U.S. But it is my belief that we have the ability to persuade them of how serious this is and that the U.N. must not be diverted or bullied."
Flashback! Excerpt from Kerry on CrossFire in 1997 (Kerry RIPS into France, et al)
John Kerry: (November 12, 1997 under a different administration of a different political party)
"...there's absolutely no statement that they have made or that they will make that will prevent the United States of America and this president or any president from acting in what they believe are the best interests of our country.""I think the United States has always reserved the right and will reserve the right to act in its best interests. And clearly it is not just our best interests, it is in the best interests of the world to make it clear to Saddam Hussein that he's not going to get away with a breach of the '91 agreement that he's got to live up to, which is allowing inspections and dismantling his weapons and allowing us to know that he has dismantled his weapons. That's the price he pays for invading Kuwait and starting a war."
"I believe, and they stood with us today and I am saying to you that it is my judgment that by standing with us today and calling for the unrestricted, unconditional, unlimited, you know, access, they have now taken a stand that they are duty bound to enforce and if Saddam Hussein doesn't do that, the president, I think, has begun a process which you remember very well, John, was not done in one week, in one day, in one month. It took months to weave together the fabric to lead up to an understanding of what was at stake. I am convinced that many people have not yet even focused in full measure on what is at stake."
October 9, 2002 John Kerry speech on the Floor of the Senate, from the Congressional Record, p. S10170-S10175
With respect to Saddam Hussein and the threat he presents, we must ask ourselves a simple question: Why? Why is Saddam Hussein pursuing weapons that most nations have agreed to limit or give up? Why is Saddam Hussein guilty of breaking his own cease-fire agreement with the international community? Why is Saddam Hussein attempting to develop nuclear weapons when most nations don't even try, and responsible nations that have them attempt to limit their potential for disaster? Why did Saddam Hussein threaten and provoke? Why does he develop missiles that exceed allowable limits? Why did Saddam Hussein lie and deceive the inspection teams previously? Why did Saddam Hussein not account for all of the weapons of mass destruction which UNSCOM identified? Why is he seeking to develop unmanned airborne vehicles for delivery of biological agents?Does he do all of these things because he wants to live by international standards of behavior? Because he respects international law? Because he is a nice guy underneath it all and the world should trust him?
It would be naive to the point of grave danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge, or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world. He has as much as promised it. He has already created a stunning track record of miscalculation. He miscalculated an 8-year war with Iran. He miscalculated the invasion of Kuwait. He miscalculated America's responses to it. He miscalculated the result of setting oil rigs on fire. He miscalculated the impact of sending Scuds into Israel. He miscalculated his own military might. He miscalculated the Arab world's response to his plight. He miscalculated in attempting an assassination of a former President of the United States. And he is miscalculating now America's judgments about his miscalculations.
All those miscalculations are compounded by the rest of history. A brutal, oppressive dictator, guilty of personally murdering and condoning murder and torture, grotesque violence against women, execution of political opponents, a war criminal who used chemical weapons against another nation and, of course, as we know, against his own people, the Kurds. He has diverted funds from the Oil-for-Food program, intended by the international community to go to his own people. He has supported and harbored terrorist groups, particularly radical Palestinian groups such as Abu Nidal, and he has given money to families of suicide murderers in Israel.
More quotes: http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/IR041003.html
There is a poster named peach that has the most impressive number of links on that subject I've ever seen. Check him out. Good luck.
Before you expend too much effort on your project, I suggest you consider that most teachers are teachers because they could not be successful in most other pursuits and recommend that you study role of cognitive dissonance plays in the retention of beliefs.
First, my teacher is presenting this as a mix of opinion and fact. For example he says "it is my opinion Bush is the worst President in my lifetime" but in an AP document that came out yesterday I think declaring there was no link between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
Second I am not looking these documents up in the hope that I can change his mind, but in the hope that the students are not brainwashed. And its a hobby anyways so its not that big of a deal.
ok i have plenty of documents about the connection, I am having trouble finding the amount of terrorists killed in Iraq and Afghanistan can anyone help me with that?
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