If Iraq was, indeed, involved in any of these attacks, the strongest possible case should be made to the American people.
We here on Free Republic -- and, importantly, yourself -- have built a persuasive body of circumstantial evidence for Iraqi involvement in each of these operations. Presumably, there are people within the administration who are even better informed...and have even more persuasive, if not conclusive, evidence of Iraqi involvement.
In my opinion, the only reason the administration is not forthcoming about this evidence at the present moment is that we are not yet ready to respond to the provocations.
However, the pace of preparation for an attack, along with the pace of disclosure (and promises of disclosure), has noticeably quickened in the past few weeks.
I suspect that, by the time the attack officially begins, we will know everything (or most everything). And just as Saddam has been at war with the US for years, without us being aware of it, I believe we are already at war with him -- unofficially, without the Democrats (or the media) knowing it.
You do realize " 7-11 " and " 9-11 " are only 2 digits off , don't you ???
I mean, c'mon here ! How much MORE proof do we need ?
Lesson from history: a little over a month ago I stood in a mass graveyard outside the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. I purposely went there as a visceral, visual reminder of what happens when people, leaders and nations of the world try to appease/make peace with madmen bent on world conquest and domination. This site contains over 186 mass graves. I know because I took the time to count each of them and to solemnly ponder their contents. THERE ARE OVER 490,000 PEOPLE BURIED THERE! People just like you and I, people who once lived, breathed, love and dreamed of bright futures for themselves and their children. Over 900, 000 people died in the city of St. Petersburg alone (200, 000 just in Jan-Feb 1942) and MOST of them were women and children. All of this happened because the leaders of the world, including Stalin, sought to appease a little madman by the name of Adolph Hitler.
A week later I went to London and visited the Imperial War Museum. There, encased in glass I saw the actual Munich pact letter signed by Hitler and Chamberlain in which Hitler "promised" in writing to end his aggression... promises always look good in writing. Europe believed his hollow promises, they tried to "contain" and "appease" Hitler, the exact same advice they are giving us today regarding Saddam... the result; HE ATTACKED THEM ANYWAY AND 80 MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN THE PROCESS... people like you and me, people like your children, your husbands, your wives, your grandparents.
Like Hitler, Saddam has given his word and made promises for the sole purpose of keeping us from stopping his WMD programs and his ultimate aims for aggression. The World needs to be reminded that to date HE HAS KEPT NONE OF THEM. History teaches us this lesson; if we do not deal with and stop Saddam now, the cost will be far, far greater to accomplish this in the future. So
"Why act now?" Because this is the reality of our current situation; Muslim fundamentalists all over the world have declared jihad on America. They want us (civilians, men, women and children) DEAD and are actively plotting to kill, enslave and destroy us. All of this is taking place at the same time Saddam continues to produce weapons grade Anthrax, VX gas, and hastily works on developing nukes and these other "goodies" to give to toady Muslim terrorists to use against America. A report out this week details the "worst case scenario" 3 MILLION DEAD due to the release of 250 pounds of weapons grade Anthrax in either LA or San Francisco
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/3995198.htm
America and it's leaders and people will either learn from history or repeat it. History provides us and our Allies with all the reasons and justification we need to preemptively go to war with Iraq and to rid the world of Saddam. The only other option the is to wait until he or one of his Muslim lackeys hits us and thousands or millions die.
The appeasers advise us to "wait," do nothing, to sit around, contain, appease and take Saddam at his word... until we are attacked, the problem is then it will be too late.
Our response must be that of G. BUSH sr.: 'Sorry, ... NOT GONNA DO IT... WOULDN'T BE PRUDENT!"
True, probably, but I'll go to my standard rant -
Administrations do not rat out prior administrations.
If they are to make the case that OKC was an islamic attack and not the act of a couple of back country ex-military, probably right wing, militia wannabe/wackos; it will be attributed to some 'new and unexpected' piece of evidence and NOT because anyone came clean on the original cover up.