What you believe, and what the facts are, are two entirely different things. Fact: The first WTC bombing was done with Iraqi government involvement, at the very top. Fact: It was Mohammed Atta and crew who sent the anthrax through our postal system (be advised that I AM a postal worker, and this turning of my workplace into a battleground HAS affected me, personally). Fact: West Nile virus did NOT "just arrive" in the center of New York City (right across the river from the UN building, to be exact), from an inocuous flight from the Middle East, coincidentally at the same time that Saddam Hussein had been identified as having his scientists work on a West Nile Virus bioweapon. The CDC lied its *** off, to protect the bankrupt Clinton administration, as a whole lot of politicized government agencies did during that eight years of gross mismanagement.
The diatribes of one Patrick J. Buchanan, who is a populist, and certainly no conservative, should not influence any "truly independent thinker". I suggest you re-evaluate your position, do some critical analysis of what has happened, when it happened, and you can soon discover the real "why it happened", much as I have done...
the infowarrior
Just about every single attempt to link Hussein with 911 has been bogus, and the rest are unproven conspiracy theories. After about the 100th lie, and several quiet resignations, I quit taking neo-con allegations seriously.
We would have believed the bogus uranium story had it not been exposed, and I seriously doubt the Bush admin would have voluntarily fessed up. They wanted to go into Iraq, not because bin Laden was there (reason #1), or WMD (reason #2). Now we are told it is because of "terrorism." Now insurgents resist and terorists are drawn in there. Doesn't prove a thing except Arabs want foreign troops off their land.
I bet you Lebanon had as much "connection" with it as Iraq.
I do, however, think Iraq is better without Hussein, at least socially.
"The diatribes of one Patrick J. Buchanan, who is a populist, and certainly no conservative, should not influence any "truly independent thinker". I suggest you re-evaluate your position, do some critical analysis of what has happened, when it happened, and you can soon discover the real "why it happened", much as I have done..."
THEY WANT TOP TAKE OUR FREEDOMS. That simple. No details, at all. No historical context. No consideration of changes on the geo-political map. Middle eastern affairs are a tad more complicated than this 3 year old's fairy tale of good and evil.
Click click click the bombs and we'll all be back in Kansas with auntie Em.