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.
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GARRY OWEN, Sir, thanks for viewing.
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Looks like quite a few did not read past the title
Thank you. I'm new here. And it's all very interesting. I appreciate your welcome.
Bump!
well said.
I wouldn’t second-guess the military and I’m not a military strategist. But I wouldn’t discount a strategy that separated the terrorists into smaller, more manageable groups by allowing some to escape so I could kill them more easily later. There are also huge political reasons to take that particular city very quickly. The fewer combatants to kill right now, the better.
I don't agree. Throughout history an army has not been defeated by killing the general, it's done by destroying the army. In fact, history is filled with cases where the general was allowed to go home after his army was defeated.
With Zarqawi alive his army has a banner to gather around. Kinda like ducks in a pond.
Besides, think of the civilian casualties that would have occurred without the chance of them being allowed to leave.
I agree.
Although I do think Zarqawi needs to be killed... just not today.
I'm sorry... what is "Bump!"?
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Hey, man, we're both here on Freerepublic just for the CLARITY of it in God's Plan, right..?
Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving and New Years to you and yours:
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Welcome and keep up the good work.
And ummm...one bit of advice. You should provide a link and a source to whatever article you are posting.
This ain't no party...this ain't no disco...this ain't stinking weblog.
I'd love to pull the trigger.
Welcome to Free Republic. I admire your audaciousness.
Welcome to FR.
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I am having some difficulty determining the difference between a compliment and an insult is many cases. But thanks… I think.
I can understand why the Liberals would see no connection between our freedom in our safe homes and our soldiers serving in Iraq. They would have seen no connection between Japan attacking us and our making Germany our first military priority in WWII.
We can no longer wait for the fight to come to us. So the Libs think there is no linkage between what happens in Iraq and international terrorism? How would they explain the presence of Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal in Iraq?
Do they suppose Iraq is to terrorists as Florida is to Senior Citizens? Perhaps they like to go there because the weather is easier to bear?
Oh wait...being in a warm climate, it is closer to places where there are cruise ships which contain elderly jewish tourists in wheelchairs who are more easily shot and dumped in the water. That's it! Oh darn, that only explains why Abu Abbas was there.
Abu Nidal probably liked it because it was only a short hop for his people to attack airports or hijack planes from some European airports.
You know what they really needed in Iraq? One of those posters, displayed prominently in the Baghdad airport that says "IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU WOULD BE HOME BY NOW!"
If you can't tell, the attitude that a lot of people have just irritates me to no end.
I just hope I don't go up in a puff of smoke because we didn't act due to our actions not passing a "global test".
right back at ya sir.
enjoy your holidays and thanks again.
rockin' ronnie.
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