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To: lugsoul

Every single thing you've said about Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt can be said about Iraq.

It is absolutely inconveivable to imagine Saddam Hussein tracking down and killing Al Qaeda terrorists the way Pakistan has done. Every time they kill/capture AQ over there, you pretend it's not significant.

The people who condemn Pakistan the loudest are likely those who would be complaining if we'd done Pakistan first that we were ignoring the bigger threat - Iraq.


263 posted on 09/29/2004 1:15:59 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
"Every single thing you've said about Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt can be said about Iraq."

Oh, really? Post a single scrap of evidence that a figure in the Iraqi government provided six-figure sums directly to the 9-11 hijackers. Post a single scrap of evidence that Al Qaeda leaders were walking around with the phone numbers of high Iraqi officials committed to memory. These are facts about the others you named. Go ahead - try to say them about Iraq.

"Every time they kill/capture AQ over there, you pretend it's not significant."

That's just a lie. Unless you truly believe that not forgiving them for their support of AQ in some circumstances just because they hunt them in others equates to "pretending it is not significant." But I'm sure you don't believe that, so it must be another of your vacations from the truth.

" The people who condemn Pakistan the loudest are likely those who would be complaining if we'd done Pakistan first that we were ignoring the bigger threat - Iraq."

Another misadventure with the truth, if you are applying it to me. It is really simple - I think the initial military response in the WOT should have been to punish those who attacked us and those who were involved in the attack. The ISI was involved in the attack. The Iraqi government was not. Those who attacked us were being sheltered on Pakistani soil, not Iraqi soil. The Pakistanis, not the Iraqis, were helping defend the Taliban.

Catching some jihadis to keep the aid and weaponry flowing in a country that has a surplus of jihadis does not, IMO, absolve them of their sins.

266 posted on 09/29/2004 1:28:19 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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