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10-February-2006 | Ron Pickrell

[MNJohnnie]

Excellent. Have him read the book Masters of Chaos and ask him what the large terrorist training camp complex east of Monsul the SOF fought their way in was there for?

[Rocko]

Good post.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Tannerone]

Oh my! What an IQ you have. Say you do teach at Berkley, right?

Aren't you ashamed you are not sharing all this wonderful (and of course accurate) intelligence with the A,B,C's of TV?

Hey, if it is in print it is true!

[Physicist]

Saddam was NOT a friend to the terrorist factions. Despite all the digging of FOX news to desparately tie the ** terrorists to Saddam, they found nothing.

Saddam was quite open about paying large sums to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. He was literally subsidizing the whole effort.

[EverOnward]

worth reading -- thank you

[Rocko]

We were great friends with the Iraqis and the Iranians in the 1960's and 1970's. At the risk of offending- so what?

Correct. Just as we helped the Soviets from 1942-1945, and then faced their missiles in Cuba 17 years later.

[Peach]

Saddam was NOT a friend to the terrorist factions. Despite all the digging of FOX news to desparately tie the ** terrorists to Saddam, they found nothing. No training camps, no records, nothing. They hold up Zarquawi and ** say "look he's in Iraq so there must have been a tie". Garbage. Who's to say that he didn't come into Iraq ** after the US came in. I don't remember FOX News saying in week 1, "a terrorist leader in Iraq has made a ** statement". Statements about Zarquawi in Iraq came nearly a year after we invaded.

I stopped reading at this one. I can understand why urban legends like this survive, however. The administration never talks about how AQ was in Iraq pre 9/11. They could mention the fact that Clinton's federal indictment of OBL mentions the relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's weird that they stay so silent on this matter. It's so easy to prove the left is lying; maybe the administration doesn't understand the important of showing what liars the Rats are.

[my4kidsdad]

for later reading...

[righteousindignation]

so very grateful to you for articulating our dilemna with passion and eloquence!!!

[nothingnew]

It's so easy to prove the left is lying; maybe the administration doesn't understand the important of showing what liars the Rats are.

Perhaps it's because they're all liars, both parties, to one degree or another, and have a common goal...just different MO's to reach the same goal.

One of my very basic tenets, rules, is Never underestimate anyone.

FMCDH(BITS)

[JWinNC]

bookmark

[Utilizer]

A long read, but an excellent post. This one deserves to be bumped up often and saved for later reading.

[Utilizer]

Ooops, sorry mate. That last post was intended for Pickerel. Cheers!

[Egon]

Ping. Excellent letter.

[Americanexpat]

Me too. If this guy says there was no terrorists training camps in Iraq he is either ignorant or a liar. The Army overran one in the north and the Marines overran one in the south that housed approximately 600 terrorists according to a Marine colonel I saqw interviewed on the History channel.

[Swordmaker]

I stopped reading at this one.

Peach, I suggest you go back and continue reading. What you cited was NOT the opinion of the writer but that of his correspondent... the one he intended to refute... and did so eloquently.

[George - the Other]

FYI ...

"THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq." - by Stephen F. Hayes

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=6550&R=EB291438F

[pickrell]

"..Have him read the book Masters of Chaos and ask him what the large terrorist training camp complex east of Monsul the SOF fought their way in was there for?.."

I'll do that. And thanks.