Al-Qaeda is a myth. It is absurd on its face to suppose that al-Qaeda cares more about Saddam Hussein than al-Qaeda. The reality is, we are at war with Saddam Hussein -- he hit us bad on 9/11, and now has the anthrax dagger at our throats -- and al-Qaeda is a convenient proxy bogeyman our leaders use to evade that awful truth. We have been outwitted and out-maneauvered by a Third World thug our leaders told us was "contained" ten years ago, and he can kill millions of us and lay our greatest cities to waste if we attempt to move against him. Bad truth, but it's the truth. Deal with it, everybody.
My God, I just went back and read it over again.
First you state that Al Qaeda is a myth.
Then you assert that the same organization, which you claim to be a myth, cares more about themselves than they do Al Qaeda. Now then, is this organization a myth, or is it not?
What you are claiming is that Al Qaeda is an artificial construct, put together by Saddam to be our undoing. The breathtaking stupidity of such a statement bears reflection.
You also claim that Saddam has a dagger at our throats. Yet we are mobilizing. I ask again (something you couldn't even bring yourself to answer, because you know that to do so would undo your whole fantasy...), why would Bush put himself into a no-win position if Saddam could deter him from the getgo? I know, you didn't think that far ahead, did you?
Of course, I noticed that you left yourself an intellectual fallback position once your house of cards comes tumbling down: you stated earlier that the Kurdish and Shi'a areas could serve as liberated zones, leaving Saddam to rule a rump state.
The sure sign of a man who, all too late, realized that he had neither the law, nor the facts on his side: all that is left for you to do is to pound the table.
Be Seeing You,
Chris