Bush always suspected Saddam was behind 9/11

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | April 27, 2003 | Con Coughlin

[MadIvan]

The left are utter morons.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[The Great Satan]

How can you offer exile to the author of 9/11? By pretending you don't really know that he's the author of 9/11, that's how.

[Bigun]

The left are utter morons.

So simple! So elegant! and so VERY, very true!

[tuckrdout]

I had heard a woman on Fox once, sorry I don't remember her name, but she stated that the terrorists who planned and flew the planes were in fact all Iraqi's.

She said that she had proof that while Iraq occupied Kuwait, they brought people in killed them, then assumed their identities.

Interesting hypothosis I think.

[Republican Wildcat]

What we've always suspected was true is now being proven.

[Joe Boucher]

i wouldn't let the Saudis off the hook just yet.

[backhoe]

She said that she had proof that while Iraq occupied Kuwait, they brought people in killed them, then assumed their identities.

( Slapping my head in frustration! )
I recall several stories from that time about killings & identity thefts, but did not save links to the stories.

[Salman]

Pretty much all of our enemies cooperate with each other against us. Sure they would cut each others' throats if we were out of the picture, but that's not our problem.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Sounds like Laurie Mylroie.

[Wolfstar]

Yes, they are. Here in the U.S., they are just salivating at the prospect of branding President Bush a "liar" if no WMD are found in Iraq. I suppose the same is true in your country. To the enemies of Bush and Blair, there could be no explanation other than that they "deliberately lied" about the WMD. Sigh...

[arete]

Without any WMD turning up, looks like the administration is going to Plan B.

Richard W.

[MadIvan]

The WMD will be found. I'd like to see how quickly you could organise a search of every basement in California (just as an equivalent).

Second, you and every other anti-war person should be utterly ashamed. Have you NO shame whatsoever?

Ivan

[guitfiddlist]

The documents also give the lie to those who said that al-Qa'eda, the Islamic zealots, would have nothing to do with the brutally secular regime of Saddam. It appears that their shared hatreds - of America, of Saudi Arabia, of the West - outweighed such considerations.

This is an absolutely key and central point that should be shouted out from all the rooftops near Mclean and Foggy Bottom. Michael Ledeen in his dead-on book "The War Against The Terror Masters",

(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031230644X/002-1044331-3767234?vi=glance)

goes into great detail about the fatal mistakes our intelligence organizations have consistently made in assuming that Sunni's won't work with Shiites won't work with Secularists...BullSquat. Their overriding hatred is centered on the West - and the US and UK being those leaders - are their key targets.

He provides countless examples of how they work together, exchange information, and train and supply each other's terrorists organizations. Later, in their somewhat interrupted gameplan, they think they'll get around to raping, maiming and slaughtering each other, but right now - all their focus is on and against us.

[arete]

The WMD will be found. I'd like to see how quickly you could organise a search of every basement in California (just as an equivalent). Second, you and every other anti-war person should be utterly ashamed. Have you NO shame whatsoever?

Don't you think that it is even a little odd that with all the dead bang pronouncments about WMD before our invasion, that now we can't find any at all? The Iraqis weren't much good at anything but suddenly we're expected to think they are master magicians who make huge complex weapons programs disappear. What do I have to be ashamed of -- pointing out the obvious?

Richard W.

[MadIvan]

Don't you think that it is even a little odd that with all the dead bang pronouncments about WMD before our invasion, that now we can't find any at all?

No. If you were an Iraqi official, the last thing you'd want to do is be caught dead with WMD. Sorry if that logic escapes you.

The Iraqis weren't much good at anything but suddenly we're expected to think they are master magicians who make huge complex weapons programs disappear. What do I have to be ashamed of -- pointing out the obvious?

Saddam, as most anyone sane admits, had become a master of concealment. No I'm not surprised that the weapons are difficult to find. Nor am I surprised that anti-war people are already complaining about the length of time to find the weapons, because no timescale was ever going to be good enough. I suspect when they are found, you will next complain that it wasn't "enough" WMD to justify an invasion, and even if they are found in massive quantities, I am sure you will complain that these WMD weren't lethal enough in total to justify the invasion. Your position, to be sure, is not the product of any legitimate concerns or questions - it is an attempt to find some crack in the logic of taking out Iraq.

Every anti-war person should be utterly ashamed given what we've discovered just so far about this regime. The fact that you're not, and your premature crowing about WMD, indicates you are indeed anti-war no matter what, a position which has grown more pathetic and despciable over time.

Ivan

[William McKinley]

Oh, and I am sure the administration's detractors will say that these are plants or forgeries. Just like they would have said if any WMD had been found so far (I still think they will be found).

[MadIvan]

Oh that's right, one more excuse in the list I forgot to add - they are going to say that it's all "planted".

They will never be satisfied that the invasion was justified. Ever. It doesn't matter how many WMD's we find, what evidence of links to Al Qaeda, how many people were gassed or tortured or killed - all that matters to the anti-war people is the sanctity of their position, and ignoring anything that might shatter that perception.

Regards, Ivan

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Check this:

Suspicious Iraqi Drums - UPDATE

[MadIvan]

It doesn't matter. Arete has already decided that the war was unjustified, and nothing is going to move him from that position.

Regards, Ivan