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The war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11
Tuesday, November 20, 2004 | Eric Boyd

Posted on 11/23/2004 7:18:49 PM PST by captainavenger

THE WAR IN IRAQ HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

If you believe that you are a fool.

John Kerry seemed to enjoy saying over and over during the 2004 presidential campaign that Iraq did not attack America on 9/11. Kerry’s infamous argument that the war in Iraq was the “wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time” was a case that Saddam Hussein was in no way a subject of the global war on terror.

Liberal news commentators have been fond of asking the question: If George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have not been at least implying that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks then why do 80% of their supporters still believe that to be true?”

Here’s is the answer to both Kerry’s claims and the accusatory questioning of the liberal pendants: conservative minded people are not fools. We do not need the details outlined in The 9/11 Commission Report, showing a history of terrorist support, to know that Iraq has supported terrorists. We do not need all the reams of intelligence from agencies throughout the world, which simply reveal that Saddam Hussein’s regime was itself a terrorist organization, to know that Iraq was a hotbed of terror.

We are not fools. We know that Osama Bin Laden likely planned the attack on America. The specific group of terrorists who identify themselves as Al-Qaida may have carried out the horrific acts of war on our Pentagon and the World Trade Center. But the war on terror is against Al-Qaida, Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, Abu Nidal, hundreds of other terror “organizations,” and every individual who seeks only to kill for the sake of Allah or any other reason. Saddam Hussein is counted as prominent among these terrorists.

Making no mistake, we know that the war on terror is currently focused on the most vicious and wide-spread seed of terror; that which grows out of the religion of Islam. We know that the war on terror is a war against Muslim radicals, Muslim extremists and Muslim moderates who support terror and who cheered at the deaths of thousands of Americans and other Nationals on 9/11.

We also know that Iraq is filled with these terrorists, that it has been a terrorist state. Do we need to stop and make a special statement that not all Muslims are terrorists? No, we are Americans. We believe in individuality. We judge people as individuals. It is one of the few things left that makes America different from most of the world. We know the truth: far too many Muslims throughout the world are terrorists.

Islamic terrorists are joined, not by organization, affiliation, treaty or agreement. They are connected by a hateful ideology that says that anyone who is not a Muslim should be killed. With a hive mentality they may use different names and may never associate directly one with another but they are all one in their goals of destruction.

Why do conservative minded people believe that Iraq was involved with the 9/11 deaths? It is not because George .W Bush or Dick Cheney said that Iraq was involved with 9/11. It is not because overwhelming evidence proves Saddam Hussein took part in the plot. It is with basic intuition and simple common sense that we ask ourselves these questions and know the answers:

Did Saddam Hussein support terrorists? Have terrorists been trained in Iraq? Are terror groups harbored in Iraq? Was Iraq a likely breeding ground for future terror attacks? Is the world a better and safer place if Iraq is free, democratic and against terrorism?

If you believe the war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 you are a fool.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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1 posted on 11/23/2004 7:18:49 PM PST by captainavenger
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To: captainavenger
Not only are you a fool but you must be a left-wing fascist anti-american democrat to believe that the war in Iraq is not part of 9/11.
2 posted on 11/23/2004 7:25:17 PM PST by YOUGOTIT
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To: captainavenger
I think I smell Zot. Where's the link newbie?



3 posted on 11/23/2004 7:26:13 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: YOUGOTIT

Ooops... you should have read the article, not just the title.


4 posted on 11/23/2004 7:27:16 PM PST by captainavenger
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To: captainavenger

Oh yeah?
See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1267231/posts
and: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174421/posts
and: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178998/posts
and: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1154537/posts
and: http://freedomkeys.com/secrethistory.htm


5 posted on 11/23/2004 7:27:54 PM PST by FreeKeys (Learn the REAL story of the Pilgrims' THANKSGIVING at: http://freedomkeys.com/thanksgiving2.htm)
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To: FreeKeys

Did anyone read past the title?


6 posted on 11/23/2004 7:28:38 PM PST by eyespysomething ("Life has a flavor the protected will never know...." Major Jason Muldoon)
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To: captainavenger

Good article. Did you write it?


7 posted on 11/23/2004 7:29:06 PM PST by eyespysomething ("Life has a flavor the protected will never know...." Major Jason Muldoon)
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To: Cacique

Read it. C'mon guys.


8 posted on 11/23/2004 7:29:34 PM PST by eyespysomething ("Life has a flavor the protected will never know...." Major Jason Muldoon)
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To: captainavenger

I must be reading this wrong but I think you are debunking the rats claim that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 and that we are not stupid to believe it does. If that's it then I agree with you.


9 posted on 11/23/2004 7:30:31 PM PST by beandog (Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out)
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To: beandog

must = might


10 posted on 11/23/2004 7:31:16 PM PST by beandog (Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out)
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To: Cacique
My apologies, I should have read the whole thing.



11 posted on 11/23/2004 7:31:23 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: captainavenger

I got it the first time. I must have read the article.


12 posted on 11/23/2004 7:32:26 PM PST by Stentor
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To: captainavenger

ZOT! ZOT! ZOT! ZOT!




Oh...never mind. Sorry.


13 posted on 11/23/2004 7:33:10 PM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: YOUGOTIT; captainavenger
If you believe the war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 you are a fool.

He is saying that the war in Iraq does have to do with terrorism if you read the whole comment.

14 posted on 11/23/2004 7:35:19 PM PST by Bellflower (A new day is coming!)
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WAIT!!! I think he's a META-TROLL. He's just posting articles with misleading titles so that people will ZOT an otherwise sensible article, then he's running back to tell his buddies at DU!

META-ZOT HIM!

;-)


15 posted on 11/23/2004 7:36:46 PM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: captainavenger

Read past the title...very good article.


16 posted on 11/23/2004 7:36:58 PM PST by FlashBack (Faith will not make our path easy, but it will give us strength for the Journey.)
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"Did Saddam Hussein support terrorists? Have terrorists been trained in Iraq? Are terror groups harbored in Iraq? Was Iraq a likely breeding ground for future terror attacks? Is the world a better and safer place if Iraq is free, democratic and against terrorism?"

Yes. Does the jackass that wrote this live on planet earth? No proof exists that Iraq attacked us on 9/11, but it is moronic to suggest that Iraq is not related to the threat of international Islamic terrorism. Why is this garbage even posted?


17 posted on 11/23/2004 7:38:57 PM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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To: FlashBack
Read past the title...very good article.

Ditto, it is a good article.

18 posted on 11/23/2004 7:39:40 PM PST by Hunble
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To: beezdotcom

I don't know what a ZOT is or a META-TROLL or a META-ZOT. I was just trying to write a title that would attract attention.


19 posted on 11/23/2004 7:39:46 PM PST by captainavenger
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To: captainavenger

I may be a fool for love; but, I'm not a fool in this case.


20 posted on 11/23/2004 7:40:41 PM PST by izzatzo
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