I don't suspect any problems between the two camps, and I'll keep paying my extortion fees to the DC tax regime every April 15, but come for my first born to fight in your endless debt financed wars and we will have problems.
------------------------------ This first article speaks to the ambiguity I mentioned in regards to exactly what kind of relationship this White House believes there is a connection between AQ and Saddam's government, but also note that the Adminstration has taken the leap of equating A a-I with AQ, using the terms interchangeably.
Bush Asserts That Al Qaeda Has Links to Iraq's Hussein President Cites Potential Cooperation as Concern The administration had begun deemphasizing claims of links between Hussein and global terrorism. Senior intelligence officials told The Washington Post this month that the CIA had not found convincing proof, despite efforts that included surveillance photos and communications intercepts.
U.S. officials have continued to hint at connections, however. Evidence linking Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks could help erode reservations on Capitol Hill and among world powers about the justification for a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
A few hours before Bush's remarks, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was asked by reporters traveling with him in Warsaw if there are linkages between al Qaeda and Iraq. "I have no desire to go beyond saying the answer is yes," he replied. Rumsfeld had just appeared before NATO defense ministers with CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin to give an intelligence briefing on the Iraqi threat. Rumsfeld said McLaughlin told them about linkages between Hussein and al Qaeda.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tried to play down the specificity of Bush's charge, saying the president was talking about what he feared could occur. Fleischer repeated the administration position that it would be a mistake to wait for a smoking gun. "Clearly, al Qaeda is operating inside Iraq," he said. "In the shadowy world of terrorism, sometimes there is no precise way to have definitive information until it is too late."
Iraq-al Qaeda links weak, say former Bush officials
Bush overstated Iraq links to al-Qaeda, former intelligence officials say Experts Doubt Iraq, al-Qaeda terror link
"While there are contacts, have been contacts, there is no co-operation. There is no substantial, noteworthy relationship," said Daniel Benjamin, former terrorism adviser to the U.S. National Security Council.
Experts scorn Saddam link to al-Qaeda
AN EXPERT on international terrorism yesterday backed the findings of a British intelligence report which concluded that there was no evidence to show Iraq was supporting al-Qaeda.
“The chairman of the monitoring group appointed by the United Nations Security Council to track Al Qaeda told reporters that his team had found no evidence linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.” [NY Times, 6/27/03]
"U.S. allies have found no links between Iraq and Al Qaeda.'We have found no evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda,' said Europe's top investigator. 'If there were such links, we would have found them. But we have found no serious connections whatsoever.’" [LA Times, 11/4/02]
I am pleased to inform you that your suspicions are baseless. I have "signed on to" no project whatsoever, Troskyite or otherwise. I have supported one (1) war at this particular time, the war against Iraq. Earlier, I also supported the war against Afghanistan. In each case I did so for specific reasons having to do with the particularities of the situation at hand. The fact that you suspect that the war against Iraq is part of a nefarious "Trotskyesque project" does not interest me.
and since I know the aims of Trotyskism I consider that set of beliefs a threat to my homeland.
Were I really a Trotskyite, I would understand your fears. As I am not, we can both heave a sigh of relief.
Perhaps it won't hit you until years from now what a disaster permanent debt financed war is to a our fair Republic, and I have feeling you will wash your hands of any blame, but the real Right will know where y'all stood.
Time will tell, of course. Feel free to point out the "disaster" you anticipate if/when it arrives.
I am sure Fox News will be there to sooth your guilt and offer up what dirty stink anti-American lefties have to say and how noble and smart the elected elite Republicans are, as Murdoch cashes another check from his softporn newspapers.
Zing! What a well-written, clever sentence.
By the way I don't have cable television.
I don't suspect any problems between the two camps, and I'll keep paying my extortion fees to the DC tax regime every April 15, but come for my first born to fight in your endless debt financed wars and we will have problems.
????? You lost me. What camps? Who's coming for your firstborn?
This first article speaks to the ambiguity I mentioned in regards to exactly what kind of relationship this White House believes there is a connection between AQ and Saddam's government, but also note that the Adminstration has taken the leap of equating A a-I with AQ, using the terms interchangeably.
By my reading, that article does not even mention Ansar al-Islam.
In fact, neither do your links 2, 3, or 4.
What's going on? We were talking about Saddam's support for Ansar al-Islam remember? You were arguing against it ('there were links but those links were meaningless'). Are you just tossing random articles at me?