[sydbas]

Democrats can not afford to have an Al Qaeda/Iraq or a 9/11-Iraq link verified. Their entire objection to the war is based on that. Ever notice how belligerent they get when the slightest suggestion about Iraq and 9/11 or Al Qaeda is mentioned? This would completely blow them out of the water.

[wagglebee]

The left has their lie and they will do whatever is necessary to protect it.

[gaspar]

Because the Dems are afraid to touch Iraq I believe that no effort was made to investigate what the CIA knew about terrorist training camps in Iraq, especially the Zajo terrorist training camp in northern Iraq which was reported as early as 1996 to have had direct ties to Al Qaeda and the predecessor to Ansar al Islam. It was run by Islamist Kurds, and their European contact was with Barakat Yarkas, a man who was known to German investigators long before 9/11, and a person who had intimate contact with the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg. Another person involved with the camp was Najmuddin Farah Ahmad, AKA Krekar, who resided in Norway and was another Al Qaeda operative.

[Southack]

"Democrats can not afford to have an Al Qaeda/Iraq or a 9/11-Iraq link verified. Their entire objection to the war is based on that. Ever notice how belligerent they get when the slightest suggestion about Iraq and 9/11 or Al Qaeda is mentioned? This would completely blow them out of the water."

On the contrary. If Democrats give up their current strategy of complete capitulation to the terrorists, it would **save** the Democratic Party from losing every national election for decades to come.

Should the Democrats ever have an "Ah Ha!" moment that causes them to say that open war is justified and demanded, the current political equation will turn on a dime.

Senator Kerry, Senator Kennedy, and Senator Clinton all marching in to a press conference to demand full scale war due to Iraq's (and others) proven links to 9/11 would change national politics in a heartbeat.

Traditionally, the Left always advocates violence eventually, anyway (think: Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Che Gueverra, Kim Il Sung, etc.). Their anti-war posturing nonsense is merely due to vestigial political baggage from long-duped political converts...an act at best, believed by few of their own diehards (certainly not by the Black Bloc, the anarchists, Animal Liberation Front, Weather Underground, Black Panthers, ACT UP, or Earth First).

At some point Democrats may get so tired of losing elections that they re-visit the politics of their uber-hero FDR, who certainly didn't eschew violence. When/if that point is reached, the Left's Cindy Sheehan-style useful idiots will cease being useful and will be cut loose or devoured by the Left's new war dogs.