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TERRORISM: SADDAM HUSSEIN'S WEAPON OF CHOICE
National Security Online ^
| 4 February 2003
| Christopher W. Holton
Posted on 02/04/2003 11:39:01 AM PST by LSUfan
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02/04/2003 11:39:02 AM PST
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LSUfan
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posted on
02/04/2003 11:50:47 AM PST
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OXENinFLA
(Time to bomb Saddam.)
To: LSUfan
Excellent article, thank you. This is one for the profile!
To: silverlizzard
You'd have had a tough time tying Hitler to Auschwitz if you demanded hard, convincing, clear and irrefutable evidence!
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02/04/2003 11:51:52 AM PST
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LSUfan
To: OXENinFLA
The "Hollywood left" and "neo-isolationists" will never settle for satellite photos. No proof that could be produced will get their heads out of the sand.
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02/04/2003 11:55:17 AM PST
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LSUfan
To: LSUfan; VaBthang4; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Blueflag; Travis McGee; aristeides; SpookBrat
In dual articles in the December issue of Vanity Fair magazine and the December 9, 2002 edition of the London Evening Standard, investigative journalist David Rose discloses that CIA files actually contain information on 100 separate meetings between Iraqi officials and Al Qaida operatives dating all the way back to 1992, before anyone in the West even heard of Al Qaida. This includes two meetings between three of the 9-11 hijackers and officers of Iraqi intelligence in the United Arab Emirates and Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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02/04/2003 11:56:04 AM PST
by
xzins
(Babylon - you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting.)
To: LSUfan
Thanks
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02/04/2003 12:06:31 PM PST
by
elfman2
To: LSUfan
![](http://customwire.ap.org/photos/XJD104020409-big.jpg)
Iraqi soldiers dressed as suicide bombers and carrying mock explosives participate in a military parade in Mosul, northern Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003. According to official Iraqi estimates, over 500,000 people took part in the parade. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
To: silverlizzard
Why? No we don't.This isn't a question of legalese, where a case 'has to be made".That is outdated, Cold War containment thinking that enabled Clinton to do nadda about Osama and Iraq under the guise that its far, far away and will never affect US interests.Until a plane smashes into a skyscraper.
Containment is folly in a world of asymmetric threats.It is an invitation to those that want to kill you to take their best shot, and even that may not be enough motivation for some, to strike back.This relic of failed strategists and diplomats will never bring peace, so the idea that "evidence" to make such a case is needed beyond what you know already about Iraq and its links to terror groups,is but a sop to a mindset of appeasement and wishful thinking that once made fighting the Soviet threat a difficult proposition.Containment is for those who lack the will to defend themselves.It is so Sept 10,2001.
To: LSUfan
Good article. Of course the author is singing to the choir in my case. The sooner we liberate Iraq the better I will sleep at night. Of course, Iraq is not the last of the transnational terrorist sponsoring states...
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02/04/2003 12:39:32 PM PST
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TheDon
To: habs4ever
"Containment is folly in a world of asymmetric threats."
Well said. It cannot be emphasized enough.
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02/04/2003 12:41:57 PM PST
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TheDon
To: habs4ever
Couldn't say it better myself.
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02/04/2003 12:46:45 PM PST
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steveegg
To: LSUfan
The cowards think they are in charge......and for a long long time, bubba allowed them to be in charge. There's a new sheriff in town now!
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02/04/2003 12:57:53 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH)
To: LSUfan
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02/04/2003 1:01:59 PM PST
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mhking
("Space is dangerous, Doctor." --Elim Garak)
To: Starrgaizr
Iraqi soldiers dressed as suicide bombers Amazing how they look so much like ex buddies of Robert Byrd.
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02/04/2003 1:49:26 PM PST
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El Gato
To: LSUfan
Excellent article. Is there a reason for not posting full text?
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02/04/2003 1:51:30 PM PST
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Stultis
To: habs4ever
Containment is for those who lack the will to defend themselves. I would say that containment is for those who value their own skins more than their ambitions. If someone doesn't care much about their own skin, or has "plausibly deniable" allies or lackeys who don't care about theirs, then containment will and has failed.
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02/04/2003 1:56:55 PM PST
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El Gato
To: El Gato
There is the confused notion that Al Qaeda and Iraq and Hamas and Hezbollah seek to bring American citizens to a terrorized state. This is short-sighted. Al Qaeda and Iraq (to name but two) want nothing less than the destruction of America as a world power. The traditional goal of terrorists is to immobilize a people and persuade them to not fight. The goal of these enemies of America goes much further; these enemies want to bring down this nation. Because of that reality, this 'war on terrorism' is actually a war to survive as a nation. What Colin Powell presents on Wednesday should be viewed in the context of defining a very dangerous and active enemy and that enemy's connection to fellow enemies hell-bent on our destruction, not just our immobilization.
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02/04/2003 2:13:57 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: El Gato
I'm not sure I understand your post.
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