Council of Foreign Relations on Saddam and Terrorists
http://www.cfr.org/iraq/iraq-iraqi-ties-terrorism/p7702
Has Iraq sponsored terrorism?
Yes. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein provided bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups fighting the governments of neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as to Palestinian terror groups. The Bush administration said it believed Saddam could pass weapons of mass destruction to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network or other terrorists. In the first few weeks after Saddam's fall from power, though, convincing proof of an Iraq-al-Qaeda link remained lacking.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/report-details-saddams-terrorist-ties/72906/
The report, titled “Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents,” finds that:
-The Iraqi Intelligence Service in a 1993 memo to Saddam agreed on a plan to train commandos from Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group that assassinated Anwar Sadat and was founded by Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
-In the same year, Saddam ordered his intelligence service to “form a group to start hunting Americans present on Arab soil; especially Somalia.” At the time, Al Qaeda was working with warlords against American forces there.
-Saddam's intelligence services maintained extensive support networks for a wide range of Palestinian Arab terrorist organizations, including but not limited to Hamas. Among the other Palestinian groups Saddam supported at the time was Force 17, the private army loyal to Yasser Arafat.
WMD
NYT admits there were WMD in Iraq confirming Bush's belief
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
Iraq's 500 tons of yellowcake shipped to Canada
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/
Russia Says U.S. Policies (Obama) Helped Islamic State, Interfax Reports
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-22/russia-calls-for-un-brokered-moves-in-fighting-terror-ifx-says
Your argument over WMDs isn’t w me , it’s with Bush and Cheney. They have both said, publicly, that their intelligence was wrong and there were no WMDs in Iraq
Of course, if there were WMDs , common sense says Saddam would have used them against us to save his skin. He knew he would be executed if the US won, so if he had WMDs he would have used them. And if he had WMDs and chose not to use them to save his own life, then they were no threat because he would never have used them
In any case a real leader, Reagan, won the war against a power that really did have WMDs. - the USSR - and he did so without invading. Reagan - smart. Bush - dumb