[Jim Noble]

This is so weak.

We invaded Iraq because, after 9/11, somebody's ass needed to be kicked.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were off limits, for reasons of state, and Saddam had been wearing a "kick me" sign for over a decade.

The idea of a serious, operational connection between the secular sand Nazi Saddam and Osama the dreamer is farcical.

Events in Iraq have not gone as planned. This is unsurprising, because our prewar knowledge of the tribes of Mosul, Mesopotamia, and Basra was shamefully poor.

Plan A was having flowers strewn in our path. Plan B has not gone so bad, for an improv.

But Saddam and Osama? Absurd!

Trying to link them up now, because events in Iraq are discouraging, is a sign of weakness.

[justa-hairyape]

The idea of a serious, operational connection between the secular sand Nazi Saddam and Osama the dreamer is farcical.

The link is already been established. Click on search term PreWarDocs.

Events in Iraq have not gone as planned. This is unsurprising, because our prewar knowledge of the tribes of Mosul, Mesopotamia, and Basra was shamefully poor.

Insurgents are coming from Iran and Syria and killing these tribes. They are also playing tribes aginst each other. What is going on in Iraq right now is the opening stages of the Iran war.

Plan A was having flowers strewn in our path.

Provide 1 quote from from Pre War days were an administration official said we would have flowers strewn in our path.

Plan B has not gone so bad, for an improv.
But Saddam and Osama? Absurd!

You house of cards is no longer. We know who you were protecting. Give it up.

[epluribus_2]

But Saddam and Osama? Absurd! They both had a very serious common interest in get the US out of Saudi. That motivation clearly would trump any philisophical anxiety they may have had. Clearly.