It never was to the layman who hasn't overshot his sensibilities by being in a position of political power.
Report Details Saddam's Support for Terrorists Who Killed Americans
The above link is the FreeRepublic discussion thread.
The actual article is :
"Saddam Hussein’s Philanthropy of Terror"
It is a pdf document with substantial footnotes and put together by Dewey Murdock of the Hudson Institute.
Eeeek. Screeech. The holy men of al-Qaeda and the secular Ba'athists of Iraq could NEVER overcome their differences sufficiently to combine forces and strike at the US. We have it on good authority from the great luminaries of the American Left tradition, that this could not happen, under any circumstances.
This is OBVIOUSLY only a figment of the imagination of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Anything they may learn from us would be a tipoff that could allow terrorists to adjust their plans and succeed in carrying out an attack that could cost tens of thousands of American lives and perhaps result in the utter destruction of a major U.S. city.
That's why they won't talk about this publicly -- yet.
As the President has repeatedly said: this is a new kind of war.
History will judge President Bush far more fairly than the Leftists do today.
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A MUST read.
well done
Interesting, but it won't fit on a bumper sticker.
Bump
Hey libs it's easy to dismiss these reports of collusion between Hussein and Al-Qaeda. Just close your eyes, put your hands over your ears, and when anyone tries to relate facts to you, just shout nonsense syllables or words like "enron" "halliburton" "war for oil" and other handy lib talking points at the top of your lungs. This method should prove effective when some nasty conservative provides overwhelming proof of Hussein's ties to international terrorism and Al-Qaeda.
Four days later, on January 15, 1999, ABC News ....
NPR reporter Mike Shuster interviewed Vincent Cannistraro.....
By mid-February 1999, journalists did not even feel the need to qualify these claims of an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship. An Associated Press dispatch that ran in the Washington Post ended this way: "The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has offered asylum to bin Laden, who openly supports Iraq against Western powers."
The collective amnesia of the press is astounding.
These quotes are (I assume) undeniable and, as such, this has GOT to get out to the public.
And it can't just be a review at Fox News....
the left will just blow it off and bury it.
This is a job for Chaney....
"Since all this fine, investigative journalism matched the intelligence we were receiving both internally and externally, we felt that we had no choice but to act preemptively before this threat became imminent."
But another passage of the same report has gone strangely unnoticed. Two paragraphs before, also on page 7, is this: "If Iraq's Saddam Hussein decide[s] to use terrorists to attack the continental United States [he] would likely turn to bin Laden's al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is among the Islamic groups recruiting increasingly skilled professionals," including "Iraqi chemical weapons experts and others capable of helping to develop WMD. Al Qaeda poses the most serious terrorist threat to U.S. security interests, for al Qaeda's well-trained terrorists are engaged in a terrorist jihad against U.S. interests worldwide."
I hope this is weighed carefully, President Bush has a lot more work to do.
Bump
Too bad this information will not be getting the headlines that have been dominated by the prison scandal. It seems to contradict the DNC party line.
As Ann Coulter so pithily put it:
The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that destroys the past as it occurred. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Ping
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