[Peach]

A VERY interesting compilation of facts surrounding Saddam Hussein's support of terrorists and AQ specifically.

[RaceBannon]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the post, Peach. Nice summary. Enemy of my enemy is my friend: Saddam and Al Qaeda, Saddam and the press, Saddam and Democrats, Saddam and Hollywood, Saddam and UN-France-EU vs. America.

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[browardchad]

If Atta was under such a high degree of scrutiny, one wonders why the FBI did not know more about him or what he was up to.

Very good point in an excellent synopsis.

[Eva]

Great article, thanks for posting.

[Let's Roll]

Local idiot "conservative" talk show host has been ranting all week about how the Bush admin misled us. "If you didn't say Saddam was responsible for 9/11, why do most Americans believe he was?" etc.

Oh, gee, I dunno - maybe because "most Americans" applied common sense, as in Saddam did support terrorists in the Philippines and paid blood money to Pali homicide bombers but then we were supposed to believe that he wouldn't dream of supporting AQ? If this local afternoon drive time guy had any competition, he would be toast.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The RATmedia has to work especially hard to avoid all these FACTS in order to continue in its pretense that Bush is just an opportunistic warmonger out to wreck havoc throughout the peace loving world. My hatred for it knows no bounds and is only equalled by my contempt for all of its factotums.

[cookcounty]

"The conventional wisdom has been that this could not have been the case because bin Laden, an Islamic fanatic reactionary, and Saddam, a secular Baathist modernizer, could never align or cooperate. " The "Conventional idiocy" is more like it. Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland together, then the Capitalist Americans went to war on the side of the Soviet Communists. Saddam regularly and loudly supported the mosque-based Hamas Death Cult, subsidizing with cash the families that bound their little sweethearts to the pagan altar of Moloch.

[Shermy]

According to Editor & Publisher, the story got little play,

Absolutely B.S. It got endless play. Remember "Bush's shifting reasons" critique?

[lowbridge]

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[Enchante]

A lot of important info here - but it's now nearly TWO years since this article appeared and FOUR years since 9/11.... WHY is the Bush administration saying virtually nothing about anything??? Do they simply lack any more definite evidence, or is there something else in play here? I know Bush does not care about polls, but the severe erosion of support for the Iraq war is truly hurting national security -- not only does it make it more difficult to succeed in our current endeavor, but it makes it nearly impossible to consider doing what we need to do next: confront Iran and Syria with imminent catastrophe if they do not straighten up and stop sponsoring terrorism against our troops!