I’d consider funding, arming, training and harboring al Qaeda affiliates (which is what the report says Saddam did) something worth being worried about. Does that mean we had to invade? Of course that’s debate and certainly an argument can be made that something else could have been done but Saddam’s Iraq was recruiting, training and arming thousands of Iraqi and non-Iraqi suicide bombers and terrorists and plotted attacks on U.S. military bases, embassies and naval vessels.

There is nothing “liberal” or “progressive” about dismissing what Saddam was up to out of hand.

Kilo Says:
However I do agree that Saddam-Terrorist links are irrelevant. These didn’t play a major role in justification for the invasion, these weren’t a major factor in establishing the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam as standing US policy since 1998.

So it’s pure sophistry when The Washington Times seems to conflate the past, the future and the present in order to post-justify past actions that have precipitated the present. (ie: No al Qeada in Iraq before, but now there’s “alQeada In Iraq” in Iraq)

Years from now when the history books are re-written this article will likely be a prominent footnote.

Kilo Says:
EIJ is not al Qaeda in exactly the same way that al Qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda in Algeria aren’t al Qaeda. In name only.
It certainly isn’t the core network which organised the 9/11 attacks, but then again who is ? A few dozen guys. The rest of al Qaeda is groups like these and their support networks.

When the president of 9/11 can dismiss Mr. alQaeda himself, Osama bin Ladin, as “not that important” it seems foolish to then turn over every rock and move heaven and earth searching for links to him.

Right.. “the Bloods are an armed criminal organization whose
goal is profit from violence and narcotics trafficing. the police are thier enemy”

and

“the Crips are an armed criminal organization whose
goal is profit from violence and narcotics trafficing. the police are thier enemy”

therefore, if we apply our Exlexlogicia to this sitution, we come to the obvious conclusion that the crips and bloods work together, right?

Exlexlia, i hate to say it, but your starting to sound more and more trollish every day. do you deny the united states has been just as involved with islamic nuts as saddam has?
yes or no?

The ONLY reason these rag-mags are allowed to spin such LIES is because the people who perpetrated these LIES in the first place have all been rewarded with lucrative retirement packages and promotions with extended stays in office. Witness Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Feif, Powell, et al.

NO CONSEQUENCES = lies into truths.

So, I can be the president and lie to the American public.
I can be the V.P. and lie to the American public.
I can be the Sec. of State AND/OR National Sec. Adviser and lie.
I can be an adviser to the Admin and craft lies.
I can be the Atty Gen. and lie to Congress and the American people.

HELLO NEO-AMERICA…
Good bye OLD America, where integrity counted for something, where principles based on the pursuit of happiness, life and Liberty defined what it meant to be an American. Good bye, She’ll be missed.

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“Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda’s stated goals and objectives.” …

“Saddam provided training and motivation to revolutionary pan-Arabl nationalists in the region. Osama bin Laden provided training and motivation for vioent revolutionary Islamists in the region. … These similarities created more than just the appearance of cooperation. Common interests, even without common cause, increased the aggregate terror threat.”

“Saddam Hussein was demonstrably willing to use terrorism to achieve his goals. Using this tactical method was a strategic choice of Saddam’s, often requiring direct and indirect cooperation with movements, organizzations, and individuals possessing, in some cases diametrically opposed long-term goals.

An example of indirect cooperations is the movement led by Osama bin Laden.”

They never last more than a couple of posts before their transparent agenda gives them away.

Although sometimes it’s their poor language skills that is the tip off.

I love this retroactive reasoning from the revisionist historians. We’re to believe that Zawahiri doing something in Iraq after the death of Saddam Hussein is evidence of a link to Saddam Hussein before the war.

After the death of Saddam? You may be thinking of Abu Musab az-Zarqawi, who started al-Qa’ida of Mesopotamia.

Republicans = Al Qaeda in America

hussein toasterhead,
How am I a troll? If I’m posting truths that you agree with, then what’s the beef? By the way I just looked at your blog. It looks cool.

Hey, thanks! Are you going to post “Mohammed was a pedophile” all over my comments pages again? It’s so cute when you do that.

hussein toasterhead Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
liberal traitor Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

It’s the spelling errors and the comically portrayed neocon stereotype of a liberal’s viewpoints that really just give it away. Absolutely, 100% transparent. The window of fun with it has ended.

That and the obsession with Christians, because all of us card-carrying Secular Muslim Progressives are trying to eradicate Christianity from the world and spread Islam everywhere.

SHHHHH!!! Don’t let the secret out!

It’s the spelling errors and the comically portrayed neocon stereotype of a liberal’s viewpoints that really just give it away. Absolutely, 100% transparent. The window of fun with it has ended.

That and the obsession with Christians, because all of us card-carrying Secular Muslim Progressives are trying to eradicate Christianity from the world and spread Islam everywhere.

Time to put fear back in the mines of the American people and the Media will make sure they do their part.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is completely ignored — despite a supermajority of the 9/11 hijackers being Saudi nationals, and more foreign insurgents in Iraq coming from Saudi Arabia than any other country.

What’s wrong with this picture?