We know Saddam worked with the PLO and other terrorists, he funded them. He at LEAST knew that 9/11 was coming.
Less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)
In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”
The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1106657/posts?page=1
List of newspaper article in the 90's which mention the world's concern regarding the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/946809/posts?page=1
Son of Saddam coordinates OBL activities:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts
The AQ connection (excellent):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944617/posts?page=2
Western Nightmare: http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html
Saddam's link to OBL: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts
NYT: Iraq and AQ agree to cooperate: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts
Document linking them: http://tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/06/34908297.shtml?Element_ID=34908297
Iraq and terrorism - no doubt about it: http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins091903.asp
A federal judge rules there are links:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986293/posts
Wall Street Journal on Iraq and AQ:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987129/posts
Iraq and Iran contact OBL: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981055/posts
More evidence: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F27%2Fwalq27.xml
Saddam's AQ connection: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969032/posts
Further connections: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts
What a court of law said about the connections:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm
Some miscellaneous stuff on connections:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989201/posts
Saddam's Ambassador to Al Qaeda: (February 2004, Weekly Standard)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083778/posts
Yes - it's NewsMax but loaded with interesting bullet points.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1097521/posts?page=1
Saddam's Fingerprints on NY Bombing (Wall Street Journal, June 1993)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115387/posts
Colin Powell: Iraq and AQ Partners for Years (CNN, February 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.alqaeda.links/
The Iraq-Al Qaeda Connections (September 2003, Richard Miniter)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092503F.html
Oil for Food Scandal Ties Iraq and Al Qaeda (June 2003)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125899/posts
Saddam and OBL Make a Pact (The New Yorker, February 2003):
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030210fa_fact
Al Qaeda's Poison Gas (Wall Street Journal, April 2004):
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005016
Wolfowitz Says Saddam behind 9/11 Attacks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/921398/posts
Saddam behind first WTC attack - PBS, Laurie Mylroie:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/mylroie.html
Growing Evidence of Saddam and Al Qaeda Link, The Weekly Standard, July 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946997/posts
Qusay Hussein Coordinated Iraq special operations with Bin Laden Terrorist Activities, Yossef Bodansky, National Press Club
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts
The Western Nightmare: Saddam and Bin Laden vs. the Rest of the World, The Guardian Unlimited:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html
Saddam Link to Bin Laden, Julian Borger, The Guardian, February 1999
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts
The Al Qaeda Connection, The Weekly Standard, July 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/944617/posts?page=2
Cheney lectures Russert on Iraq/911 Link, September 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/982713/posts
No Question About It, National Review, September 2003
http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins091903.asp
Iraq: A Federal Judges Point of View
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/986293/posts
Mohammed's Account links Iraq to 9/11 and OKC:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987075/posts
Free Republic Thread that mentions so me books Freepers might be interested in on this topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/977221/posts?page=8
The Proof that Saddam Worked with AQ, The Telegraph, April 2003:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F27%2Fwalq27.xml
Saddam's AQ Connection, The Weekly Standard, September 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969032/posts
September 11 Victims Sue Iraq:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2237332.stm
Osama's Best Friend: The Further Connections Between Al Qaeda and Saddam, The Weekly Standard, November 2003
Terrorist Behind 9/11 Attacks Trained by Saddam, The Telegraph, December 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts
James Woolsey Links Iraq and AQ, CNN Interview, March 2004, Also see Posts #34 and #35
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1104121/posts
A Geocities Interesting Web Site with maps and connections:
http://www.geocities.com/republican_strategist/Iraq-Bin-Laden.html
Bin Laden indicted in federal court, read down to find information that Bin Laden agreed to not attack Iraq and to work cooperatively with Iraq:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/98110402.htm
Case Closed, The Weekly Standard, November 03
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp
CBS - Lawsuit: Iraq involved in 9/11:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/05/september11/main520874.shtml
Exploring Iraq's Involvement in pre-9/11 Acts, The Indianapolis Star:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/746225/posts
The Iraq/AQ Connection: Richard Minister again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989201/posts
Militia Defector says Baghdad trained Al Qaeda fighters in chemical weapons, July 2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743892/posts
The Clinton View of Iraq/AQ Ties, The Weekly Standard, December 2003
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/527uwabl.asp
Saddam Controlled the Camps (Iraq/AQ Ties): The London Observer, November 01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/741676/posts
Saddam's Terror Ties that Critics Ignore, National Review, October 2003:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005579/posts
Tape Shows General Wesley Clark linking Iraq and AQ:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056113/posts
Freeper list of links between AQ and Iraq:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/850346/posts
Salman Pak (Aviation Weekly)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865435/posts
Another freeper resource - list of links between OBL and Saddam:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/838309/posts
Saddam/911 Link (FrontPage Magazine, Laurie Mylroie, May 2004):
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133317/posts
Bush says Zarqawi killed Berg, cites Saddam ties (Reuters, May 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136076/posts
The Connections (May 2004, The Weekly Standard)
New Information:http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1144123/posts?page=11
Saddam's role in 9/11. (Freeper book, May 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1144699/posts?page=5
Entire link and Post #5 - Clinton mentioned how AQ was developing a relationship with Iraq.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145787/posts
The House of Representatives read into the congressional record the ties that Saddam had to Osama bin Laden (read down and open links in the record): June 2004
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r108:@FIELD(FLD003+h)+@FIELD(DDATE+20040601)
Exploring the links between 9/11 and Iraq (Richard Miniter, June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1146319/posts?page=1
The Terrorist behind 9/11 was trained by Saddam (The Telegraph, 12/03)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1146356/posts?page=1
New Iraqi Chief Links 9/11 to Saddam (June 2004, NewsMax)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1146579/posts?page=1
Increasing evidence of Saddam's ties to 9/11 and AQ (National Review, June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146984/posts
Pre Bush Timeline of Saddam/OBL Ties (Freeper research):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1152923/posts?page=1
Cheney claims Iraq/AQ connections (June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1153781/posts?page=20
THE GREAT TERROR
by JEFFREY GOLDBERG
In northern Iraq, there is new evidence of Saddam Hussein's genocidal war on the Kurds—and of his possible ties to Al Qaeda. (2002)
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020325fa_FACT1
M. Peaches 9/11 bookmarks, what Clinton knew and when:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/685442/posts
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
Stephen Hayes book, The Intel Links OBL and Saddam (The Weekly Standard, June 2004)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103176,00.html
Britain insists that AQ was in Iraq pre war (June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155369/posts
Cheney says definite ties between Iraq/AQ and outraged at NYT headline (June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1155520/posts?page=1
How the Networks Pretend to Ignore their own reporting from the 1990's (MRC, June 2004)
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040617.asp
The AQ/Iraq connection according to the NYT in 1998 (NYT, 1998 and again in 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155977/posts
There was a link between OBL and Saddam (The Sunday Telegraph, June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156634/posts
9/11 Commission says prominent member of AQ served in Iraq's militia (Reuters, June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1156957/posts
Google's Direct Links between OBL and Saddam Detailed with names and specifics here:
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:pcbNfzSpuiAJ:abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/alqaeda_iraq020927.html+Iraqi+members+of+Al+Qaeda&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Saddam behind anthrax attacks? (January 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1052221/posts?page=33
9/11 Commission reaffirms Bush administration view of Iraq/AQ ties: (June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157478/posts
Newsweek 1999: Saddam reaching out to OBL
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158277/posts
Osama and Saddam Seal a Pact (1999)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158482/posts
How Saddam collaborated with Osama. Interview with Stephen Hayes with excellent information (June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158493/posts
The Clinton Administration first linked Saddam and OBL (The Washington Times, June 2004)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040624-112921-3401r.htm
Wonderful, well researched list of Freeper links that provide much ammunition that OBL and Saddam were working together as well as some info that Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks and quite probably 9/11:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866029/posts
Documents Shows Iraq Intel Agents Met with OBL (AP, June 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160146/posts
Saddam's links to terrorism (The Daily Telegraph, 2003)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894721/posts
Putin warned President Bush after 9/11 that Saddam Hussein planned to attack America
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1161677/posts
Gore, Cohen, Clinton linked AQ and Saddam (July 2004)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165515/posts
More evidence of Iraq/AQ relationship (NYT, June 2004)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/politics/25TERR.html?ei=5070&en=441dbd2a3bae663c&ex=1089259200&pagewanted=print&position=
Long List of Clinton Admin. Officials who Believed Aq/Iraq connection (July 2004)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169397/posts
A blog and links to 9/11 Commission report with specific references to the ways in which Iraq/AQ were connected and worked together (July 2004)
http://windsofchange.net/archives/005191.php#al-qaeda
The 9/11 Commission and Iraq/AQ Connections (The Weekly Standard, July 2004):
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173008/posts
What the Senate Intelligence Report REALLY said about the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda (Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard, July 2004)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173423/posts
9/11 Commission has specific connections between Iraq and AQ: July 2004
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/354tdeij.asp
Clinton feared Iraq gave AQ chemical weapons in Sudan under a cooperative agreement they had: (9/11 Commission, July 2004)
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373948467
Specific quotes from 9/11 Commission Report regarding links between AQ and Iraq:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182042/posts
link)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193821/posts
The Weekly Standard (9/04) details some Iraq/AQ links according to congressional oversight committees:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214954/posts
Fox News reports that Saddam may have used Oil for Food money to fund Al Qaeda. (FNC, September 2004)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132682,00.html
Jane's links Iraq to 9/11:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219383/posts
Here is one other aspect of this I rarely hear mentioned that is worth some detailed FReeper analysis - remember that Al Qaeda, as we know it today, was the union of UBL's group with Egyptian Islamic Jihad. I never see anybody (even Senate report) make those connections. Yet UBL's chief partner (Zawahiri sp) was formerly the end of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and merged that group into AlQaeda. The libs act like they all sing a roll card and have to have an AQ stamp in their passport to in any way qualify as a terrorist worthy of killing.
Fox News reports on the Senate Intelligence Committee Report regarding Iraq and AQ (July 2004):
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040714.asp#5
But page 316 of the Senate report states that the CIA provided 78 reports from various sources that from 1996 to 2003, Saddam Hussein's regime was actively training Iraqi intelligence operatives for terrorist attacks against U.S. interests.
FNC on Monday night explored another area of the report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that other media outlets have skipped: Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq’s role in helping terrorists. On the July 12 Special Report with Brit Hume, Bret Baier reported how “sixty-six pages of the report fall under the heading 'Iraq's Links to Terrorism'” and in it, Baier related, “multiple, credible sources are cited that Iraq provided al-Qaeda with various kinds of training, combat, bomb-making, along with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training, backing up public and private statements by former CIA director George Tenet." Baier pointed out: “The details in the report seem to shoot down at least two of former White House counter-terrorism director Richard Clarke's bold claims.”
MRC analyst Megan McCormack noticed the story, which fill-in anchor Brian Wilson introduced: “There's been a lot of emphasis on the negative aspects of the Senate intelligence committee report on U.S. intelligence before the war in Iraq, the parts that show what the Senators believe the intelligence community got wrong. But there's another section of the report about the pre-war intelligence that was right. Fox News Pentagon correspondent Bret Baier reports."
Baier began: "Almost all of the media coverage on the Senate intelligence committee's report about pre-war assessments by the CIA has focused on how harshly critical it is on CIA analysts. However, Friday the acting director pointed to one positive view."
John McLaughlin: "They made the point that we had done very well at our assessment over the relationship between Saddam and al-Qaeda and other terrorists."
Baier: "Sixty-six pages of the report fall under the heading 'Iraq's Links to Terrorism.' While the conclusion reads that the CIA correctly assessed there was no hard evidence of Iraq's command and control over al-Qaeda or no hard evidence of an established formal relationship, the report lays out the extent of the informal ties. A January 2003 CIA assessment from reliable, clandestine sources states that quote 'direct meetings between senior Iraqi representatives and top al Qaeda operatives took place from the early 1990s to the present,' meaning all the way up to January 2003. Multiple, credible sources are cited that Iraq provided al-Qaeda with various kinds of training, combat, bomb-making, along with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training, backing up public and private statements by former CIA director George Tenet."
George Tenet: "Iraq has in the past provided training and document forgery and bomb-making to al-Qaeda. It has also provided training in poisons and gasses to two al-Qaeda associates."
Baier: "The report states that the CIA had multiple sources telling them that Saddam Hussein had issued a standing offer of safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his organization in 1999. The details in the report seem to shoot down at least two of former White House counter-terrorism director Richard Clarke's bold claims. Clarke told 60 Minutes in March quote, 'There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda. Ever.' Clarke also claimed that Iraq had not been involved in anti-U.S. terrorism since the failed 1993 plot to assassinate the first President Bush in Kuwait. But page 316 of the Senate report states that the CIA provided 78 reports from various sources that from 1996 to 2003, Saddam Hussein's regime was actively training Iraqi intelligence operatives for terrorist attacks against U.S. interests. Here's one particular reference, quote, 'Ten intelligence reports from multiple sources, indicated Iraqi Intelligence Service 'casing' operations against Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Prague began in 1998 and continued into early 2003. The CIA assessed, based on the Prague casings and a variety of other reporting that throughout 2002, the IIS was becoming increasingly aggressive in planning attacks against U.S. interests.'
“The ranking member of the committee, Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, said on Fox News Sunday this weekend he still believes that political pressure was put on the CIA analysts by the Bush administration, despite the fact that the committee's report concluded that none of the analysts or other people interviewed said they were pressured to change their conclusions, and the committee did not find any changes in their analytical judgments."
Don’t count on seeing that kind of story elsewhere given how much the other networks have invested in the storyline that Iraq had nothing to do with al-Qaeda.
Can you name the supposed high-ranking fedayeen member at the pre 9-11 meeting? I'm sure you can, but didn't because you know better.
Good work, friends..
Saddam was on CIA payrol since 1958, Osama since 1980. It is very likely their paths met somewhere before. Don't forget that Uncle Saddam was Uncle Sam's ally in Iraq-Iran war.
Pesky little things facts and past history seem to be for Senator Kerry. They stand in the way of his having it both ways. Iraq was a haven for terrorists. It's a simple premise really. One backed up by a ton of evidence. The person that can't see that is no one that I would want in charge of national security in this post 9/11 world.
I added this thread to the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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I guess it will come out during his trial.
It would appear that he hasn't read the commission report. It's not seared in his memory!
From what I am watching develope, I am inclined to believe for the upcoming days leading before the election, Osama, the Iraqi terrorists, and John Kerry will be working hand in hand.
Call it what you like, unspoken agreement or not, "enemy of my enemy, is my friend." (of course, after the SBVfT pointing out sKerry's devious secret enemy meeting ways, unspoken it may not be.)
Al-Qaeda Big Confirms Terror Ties to Iraq
The Iraq Connection: Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?
World Trade Center Attack Complaint (Iraq named as plaintiff)
Complaint (PDF) Lawsuit claiming a 9/11 link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Sept. 3, 2002
Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view (Iraq believed to be behind 9/11)
Iraq and al Qaeda: Who's campaigning to deny the links?
Iraqi Terrorists Detail Ties To Bin Laden
Bin Laden disciples terrorise Kurds
The real bin Laden (Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade)
Iraq giving chemical weapons to al-Qaida: US thinks Iraq plotting with terrorists
Iraq and al-Qaida part of same picture, says Straw
'Iraq knew of al-Qaeda attacks'
Bin Laden uses Iraq to plot new attacks
Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism
Mohamed Atta Was Here...And met with Saddam Hussein's man in Prague.
Lawsuit Alleges Saddam Trained 9/11 Hijackers
Mike Boettcher: Arrests may link al Qaeda, Iraq
Son of Saddam Praises bin Laden in Official Iraqi Newspaper
Iraq's Ambassador To Turkey Recalled To Baghdad [second link between Bin Laden and Iraq discovered]
U.S.: Rumsfeld Says Al-Qaeda Takes Refuge In Iraq
CIA Director: Al Qaeda May Be Turning to Iraq
Rumsfeld Says Iraq Has Helped al-Qaeda
Iraq-Al-Qaeda Bombshell: Mag Documents New Links
German investigators link bin Laden and Iraq with anthrax outbreak
'Proof' of Iraq/Bin Laden links
Was bin Laden working with Iraq?
Iraq suspected of sponsoring terrorist attacks
Bush hopeful new report will link Iraq to al-Qaeda
U.S. captures Iraqis in Afghanistan raid
A Saddam-Afghanistan Connection Reported
Saddam trained al Qaeda terrorists, British claim
Iraq, al-Qaida linked by administration: Fleischer hints at more coming on connection
Gephardt: 'Lots Of' Intelligence Ties Iraq to Al-Qaeda
UHOLY TRINITY IN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PACT - IRAQ, SUDAN & OSAMA BIN LADEN
Links Between 9-11 Terrorist Leader Mohammed Atta, Anthrax, bin Laden and Iraq Appear Likely
The Saddam Hussein / Osama Bin Laden Connection
Iraq trains Bin Laden’s Men in Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
'America Should Act in Self Defense Against Iraq For 9/11, OKC, 1993 WTC Attacks
Rumsfeld: Iraq Sheltered Top Bin Laden Aides
Exposed: Saddam's Prohibited Missiles and Support of al-Qaeda Terrorism
State Department: Key al Qaida Man in Baghdad
Bin Laden is back, now as defender of Iraq
Al-Qaida cohorts still active in Iraq
Debate over Iraq-bin Laden links reignited
Did Saddam, Bin Laden Work Together to Get Weapons of Mass Destruction?
U.S. Has 'Solid Evidence' of Al Qaeda Operating in Iraq
Arafat-Saddam-Bin Laden Links Surface
Bin Laden-Saddam nuclear pact?
‘PHARAOH' CLUE LINKS SADDAM AND OSAMA
New Evidence Of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?
U.S. tracked top al Qaeda planner's visit to Baghdad
Rice: Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda
Blair claims Iraq is linked to al-Qaida
Al-Qaeda terrorists seen in Iraq, says US
An Al Qaeda- Iraq link materializing?
The Iraqi-Oklahoma City Bombing Connection
Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond
Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)
The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
What the democrats want you to forget
Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)
Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)
Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam
-Time to kick the tires & light the fires, folks- terrorism gathers across the World...--
-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--
-Jihad! Across the World....--
-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--
I found another extensive list of links awhile back when I was researching for my own list...you might check them against your list to make sure you have them...
If you are keeping the Clinton/Saddam list...here is one I found this morning that you might be interested in...
Iraq's Tie to Al-Qaeda Terrorists, Airline Hijackings
Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists
Taliban, Clinton, Saudi Involvement - All laid out in a book published in 2000 (from USMC.MIL site)
The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
What the democrats want you to forget
Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)
Czech military reports say iraq has smallpox virus in weapons stockpile (and camelpox)
Iraqi chemical weapons buildup reported (Sept 2001 Report)
Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
statement President Clinton from 1998 on the air strikes
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Full Text, Sense of Congress - Remove Saddam
... Saddam Hussein's regime was actively training Iraqi intelligence operatives for terrorist attacks against U.S. interests
As I've posted many times and will continue to write on every thread where this comes up, the President clearly said that this is not a war against al Qaeda. It's a war against all terrorism with global reach. Saddam's IIS qualifies as such an enemy in its own right. Not other justification to attack Iraq is required.
I'm not so sure about this. According to senator Patty Murray (D WA) Osama bin Laden was too busy building day care centers.
bttt
I don't see how we could have afforded NOT to topple Hussein. As far as the WMD's go, Saddam had plenty of time to get them out of Iraq. How long did Inspector Cluessosp? (Hans Blix) stall the process- about a month or so, wasn't it?-more than enough time to get them out.
Even if Hussein didn't have WMD's -EVERYONE thought he did have them. What about the Oil for Food scandal? It seems clear that the UN was never serious about confronting Saddam.
So, according to the Rat's, we should have left Hussein in power, gone blissfully on , and let the corrupt UN "handle it". If we would have done that, it would have only been a matter of time until it led to disaster. Think about it, all the people that are in prison now (like Dr. Germ)would be out working for Saddam, dodging the inspectors, and taking kick backs to add to their coffers.
Saddam and Al Queda both hate us, but according to to the left, there was NO chance they would have joined forces? And we should have relied the UN to protect us? That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
In case this didn't get into the links Saddam offered asylum to Bin Laden
Great post by the way. Lots of links and useful information.
PSSSSSTTTTTTTtttttt.......... Hellllo press....over here. Check this out.............................................crickets chirping
I don't see how we could have afforded NOT to topple Hussein. As far as the WMD's go, Saddam had plenty of time to get them out of Iraq. How long did Inspector Cluessosp? (Hans Blix) stall the process- about a month or so, wasn't it?-more than enough time to get them out.
Even if Hussein didn't have WMD's -EVERYONE thought he did have them. What about the Oil for Food scandal? It seems clear that the UN was never serious about confronting Saddam.
So, according to the Rat's, we should have left Hussein in power, gone blissfully on , and let the corrupt UN "handle it". If we would have done that, it would have only been a matter of time until it led to disaster. Think about it, all the people that are in prison now (like Dr. Germ)would be out working for Saddam, dodging the inspectors, and taking kick backs to add to their coffers.
Saddam and Al Queda both hate us, but according to to the left, there was NO chance they would have joined forces? And we should have relied the UN to protect us? That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
In case this didn't get into the links Saddam offered asylum to Bin Laden
Great post by the way. Lots of links and useful information.
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I read in the New York Times and the Boston Globe that there was absolutely no link between them. Really.
Another lie the dems are trying to push is that Saddam Hussein would have peacefully gone on terrorizing his own people and had no desire to attack us. It's well documented on this thread that this was not the case.
Page 339 of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report states that there are provacative links between Iraq and the first WTC attack in 1993 and the 9/11 attacks.
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