If Bush hadn't interrupted the war on terror to start the senseless Iraqi adventure, we would not have Obama elected in the first place. Bush is no hero.
If Bush hadn't interrupted the war on terror to start the senseless Iraqi adventure, we would not have Obama elected in the first place. Bush is no hero.
Keep telling yourself that. After 4 tours to Iraq (2003, 2004, 2006-07, and 07-08), and being amongst the Iraqi people and talking to them for nearly four years of my life........I can say otherwise; that there were terrorists with full support of the regime in IZ prior to 20 March 2003. ie, that the Iraq invasion was necessary. Conveniently you and others like you forget that Hussein (theirs not ours) welcomed UBL in the 90s and offered him safe haven......as the Mukhabarat (the Iraqi intel service had already allowed Ayman Musab Al-Zarqawi - a member of Al-Qa'ida in contact with UBL)....but of course, that doesn't fit your narrative.
and let's not forget: Terrorism In 2002, Saddam was paying $25,000 to the families of every Hamas suicide bomber, was sheltering Abdul Rahman Yasin who mixed the chemicals for the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, was sheltering Abu Abbas who attacked the Achille Lauro, was sheltering Abu Nidal (who had committed a string of terrorist offences, including the bombings of Rome and Vienna airports), had lobbied on behalf of an Iraqi embassy official - Ahmad Hikmat Shakir - who attended a top-level al-Qaeda summit, meeting two 9/11 hijackers, in Kuala Lumpur (2000), and, most importantly, had welcomed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - a Jordanian jihadi - into Iraq, and let him recuperate in a Baghdad hospital. Charles Duelfer has identified that the installation at Salman Pak was a terrorist training camp, and that it was primarily used to train foreign non-Iraqi mercenaries: "a branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service known as M14, the directorate for special operations, oversaw a highly secretive enterprise known as the Challenge Project, involving explosives ... [that] trained Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Yemeni, Lebanese, Egyptian and Sudanese operatives in counterterrorism, explosives, marksmanship and foreign operations at its facilities at Salman Pak, near Baghdad." Tell me, why would they need to train Sudanese (Sudan then being the world's leading exporter of terror) operatives in "counterterrorism"? the article goes onto to also name Zawhiri as being in Iraq pre-2003
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.