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anyone who knows ANYTHING about either Saddam or Al Qaeda would have a hard time believing that.

The establishment of Al Qaeda had three goals

1. Remove American troops from Saudi Arabia
2. Overthrow the secular regimes of Saddam and Mubarak / Islamic revolution in Iraq and Egypt
3. Destruction of Israel

Cooperation between Saddam and Al Qaeda is about as likely as cooperation between Rick Santorum and NAMBLA

What about the reports that SH was a hero to the entire Islamic world for "standing up to" the west, as well as being possessed of the only decent-sized army in the region? While it is true that SH's Iraq was "heretically" secular (as we see in the articles on the recent attacks on "unislamic" businesses and nonmuslim minorities in it-I hope THAT situation is under control), I can still see why , if it's true GWB wants to remake the entire ME (which is supposedly his ambition, per any number of analyses I've read), he'd start with Iraq and not with other, more openly terrorist-supporting countries in the region. Especially if it's true that The Plan, all along, was to set up new bases in Iraq from which to attack those very countries in their turn (assuming they don't crack down on terrorists within their borders before GWB does it for them) .

Apparently you don't know ANYTHING about the Saddam/Al-Qaeda connection. Where have you been ContentiousObjector? Canada, perhaps, along with the other leftover ContentiousObjectors from the Viet Nam war? If you were paying attention to current events you would know that we found documents in Iraq that prove your ideas false. Didn't you know that the documents show that Saddam sent a representative to Afganistan in 1998 to meet with Bin laden? Did you know that they were discussing Bin laden coming to Iraq to meet with Saddam? Did you know that we found an Al-Qaeda training camp outside of Bagdad, that could only operate with Saddam's knowledge and consent? Did you know that there were Al-Qaeda training camps in Iraq that were teaching airliner hijacking techniques, such as how to take over a plane using just knives? Did you ever hear of the idea that, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Bin Laden hated the U.S. more than he hated Saddam. I guess you're the one who doesn't know anything but Radical-Leftist propaganda, which includes not giving people information that they want to hide.

Yeah, and the Dems' tax hikes were 'for the children'.
LOL!

Do you believe everything you're told by all the terrorist gangs or just Al Queda?

Al Queda had one goal: extorting money by terror.