You don't understand why we liberated Iraq? The Senate Intelligence Committee Report detailed the following:
#1. We had 78 reports from different sources that provided information that Hussein's regime was actively training Iraqi intelligence soldiers for terrorist attacks against America and American interests.
#2. Iraq provided Al Qaeda with bomb making, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear training.
#3. Direct meetings betwen senior Iraqi military officers and top Al Qaeda operatives took place betwen the early 90's and 2003.
#4. The truth about yellowcake uranium was exactly the opposite of what Joe Wilson said it was. The Report reveals that Wilson lied to Congress and the press and that Iraq was indeed trying to purchase yellowcake uranium from Africa.
Russian intelligence warned Washington several times in the days immediately following 9/11 that Hussein was planning to attack the US. Putin was opposed to the war and had little reason to provide that information.
On July 21, 2001, the state-run Iraqi newspaper Al Nasiriya carried an article titled "America, an Obsession called Osama Bin Laden". Baath party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that OBL would attacked the US and he "will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House."
The article said that OBL "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" which is a reference to the Sinatra song "New York, New York".
Saddam was on the official list of state sponsored terrorism for 20 years.
His list of working with Al Qaeda is a long one and in the 90's the media wrote extensively about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam.
Links here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts
Now if stating the facts and supporting the war makes me a Bush-bot, so be it.
You know very well I don't reply to you.
Peach, your well researched and referenced facts leave Iconoclast's already clearly juvenile argument shattered in pieces on the floor. He will reply with snide quips, denials, and will undoubtedly try and change the subject.
CPR and himself both must impugn Bush's intent with ridiculous claims of "empire", without providing anything even resembling a salient fact or even a plausible speculation as to what possible reason Bush could have to want to "conquer the world"... save descending into Buchanan's antisemitism.
The sudden amnesia both the UN-left and the Paleo-right seem to suffer from regarding years of investigation and revelation of the connections of Hussein's Iraq and the rise of Bin Laden's Al Qaeda, came on when it became clear that it was up to Bush to stand against the perpetrators of 9/11. Anything to bring down Bush, even sacrificing the security of one's own country... is a very dubious trait to share with the anti-american left, don't you think?