[lugsoul]

ANYONE care to deal with the fact that before the war, Zarqawi's operations were in the Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq that was indisputably not under the control of Saddam's government?

C'mon, folks. A little intellectual honesty here. Or do you think we should be bombing the hell out of the Kurds?

[Peach]

An AQ terrorist stating he received WMD training in Iraq and you want to pretend Saddam didn't know about it because of WHERE you think in Iraq the training occurred.

ooookay.

So now the goal post has been moved to the AQ terrorists have to have been provided training in downtown Baghdad or something.

Like much of anything went on in that country that Saddam didn't know about.

Like he didn't know about Salmon Pak. Right.

[LexBaird]

ANYONE care to deal with the fact that before the war, Zarqawi's operations were in the Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq that was indisputably not under the control of Saddam's government?

I'll dispute it. The northern Kurdish area was under a "no-fly" interdict for Saddam's air power, but to think that severly limited his ground force movement, or even his operation of AA batteries in the north of Iraq is silly. AQ camps were located in the north for reasons of plausible deniability and quick cross-border access to Iran, but to think they were there without Saddam's approval, and logistical support, is naive.

[An.American.Expatriate]

ANYONE care to deal with the fact that before the war, Zarqawi's operations were in the Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq that was indisputably not under the control of Saddam's government?

IIRC, the Kurdish Territory in the north was not autonomous and Iraqi Troops were stationed there.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"ANYONE care to deal with the fact that before the war, Zarqawi's operations were in the Kurdish territory in the north of Iraq that was indisputably not under the control of Saddam's government?"

If Saddam had no power in that region, then why did he continually send his troops to that area to kill Kurds?

There was a "No FLY Zone" enforced. There was the ability to transport by land, which means that your indisputably is disputable.