a strange coincidence

[samclemens]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202277,00.html

 

i must say, this is another strange coincidence.

 

first, its revealed that there were WMDs in iraq. lib's response? "well, yes, there were WMDs, but not the kind that we should have gone to war over"

 

and now this:

"Fox News and Robison last week revealed the contents of a 1999 notebook kept by an Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) operative. That notebook detailed how Saddam's agents aggressively pursued and entered into a diplomatic, intelligence, and security arrangement with the Taliban and Islamist extremists operating in Afghanistan — years before the 9/11 attacks.

 

While the training manual revealed today by Fox News does not mention the IIS agent's notebook, the manual does suggest an Arab regime, most likely Saddam, may have provided the military help requested by the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

 

The manual, declassified and recently released by the Foreign Military Studies Office, advises its Arab readers never to show your "military ID." That strongly suggests that Iraq was sending professional military assistance to Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks"

 

again, not entirely conclusive, as with the WMD article i posted on here a few weeks ago (i think it was a few weeks ago), but the manual was taken from the IIS.

 

it is pretty clear to me that saddam WAS aiding terrorists prior to 9/11. i think the time is soon approaching that a totality of the circumstances will make many critics have to reconsider their position on saddam hussien. then they can eat some crow and like it too.

Edited July 6, 2006 by samclemens

[NorthSideSox72]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202277,00.html

 

i must say, this is another strange coincidence.

 

first, its revealed that there were WMDs in iraq. lib's response? "well, yes, there were WMDs, but not the kind that we should have gone to war over"

 

and now this:

"Fox News and Robison last week revealed the contents of a 1999 notebook kept by an Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) operative. That notebook detailed how Saddam's agents aggressively pursued and entered into a diplomatic, intelligence, and security arrangement with the Taliban and Islamist extremists operating in Afghanistan — years before the 9/11 attacks.

 

While the training manual revealed today by Fox News does not mention the IIS agent's notebook, the manual does suggest an Arab regime, most likely Saddam, may have provided the military help requested by the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

 

The manual, declassified and recently released by the Foreign Military Studies Office, advises its Arab readers never to show your "military ID." That strongly suggests that Iraq was sending professional military assistance to Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks"

 

again, not entirely conclusive, as with the WMD article i posted on here a few weeks ago (i think it was a few weeks ago), but the manual was taken from the IIS.

 

it is pretty clear to me that saddam WAS aiding terrorists prior to 9/11. i think the time is soon approaching that a totality of the circumstances will make many critics have to reconsider their position on saddam hussien. then they can eat some crow and like it too.

 

Do you really think that we went to war with Iraq because of WMD's, or 9/11 ties? I'm pretty sure the majority of people on both sides of the aisle in this forum would agree that those were diversionary marketing schemes for the real purposes of the war.

 

Iraq = anchorhead

 

It was a regional influence and power play, above anything else.

[samclemens]

Do you really think that we went to war with Iraq because of WMD's, or 9/11 ties? I'm pretty sure the majority of people on both sides of the aisle in this forum would agree that those were diversionary marketing schemes for the real purposes of the war.

 

Iraq = anchorhead

 

It was a regional influence and power play, above anything else.

 

im just trying to say that people who keep insisting that saddam did not support terrorism directed towards the US are going to find it harder and harder to defend that position if more circumstantial evidence keeps coming out like this. little inferences add up.

[NorthSideSox72]

im just trying to say that people who keep insisting that saddam did not support terrorism directed towards the US are going to find it harder and harder to defend that position if more circumstantial evidence keeps coming out like this. little inferences add up.

I'm sure Saddam loved the idea of terror against the U.S., and would have supported it to the extent he could. But I am equally confident that, aside from sending a couple bodies and signing some mutual goal-type agreements, he wasn't able to do anything about it. All accounts are that he was stagnated militarily and technologically, and in fact Iraq had significantly regressed in many areas. He didn't have the money or the equipment to do anything. The UN sanctions were working, in their ultimate purpose (corruption aside).