President Bush is expected to use declassified intelligence about Osama bin Laden to defend his Iraq war policy during a commencement address Wednesday. He says bin Laden planned in 2005 to use Iraq as a base from which to launch attacks in the United States. Give me a break. First, it was WMDs, next it was to 'rid the world of a brutal dictator', now Bin Laden had an Iraq plan? Does this administation have an credibility left at all? Why am I to believe that Hussein, who had a death grip on Iraq prior to his ousting and a dislike for Bin Laden, ever allow this to happen? Talk about grasping for straws. ARTICLE
Of course Saddam Hussein would never allow this to happen. But notice these plans were being made in 2005, well after Saddam had been ousted from power. So no, he's not really grasping for straws in that sense.
Oh I see. So Bush is trying to justify the war by saying Bin Laden had plans to use it as a base to launch attacks in 2005. Much like alot of other things this adminstrations' done, it doesn't make alot of sense.
I think you are dead on. Two years into this fandango Bin Ladin saw an opportunity to destableize the mid-east region at the expense of the America. He acted on it. Had we not foolishly headed into Iraq al-Queda would not have an additional theatre to attack America in. This is another lame attempt to to justify this administrations Iraqi war. I guess they figured no one would pay attention to the date.
No it wasn't. There were inspectors in Iraq until UNSCOM pulled them out in 1998. The US "you fly-you die" zone has been in continual effect since 1991. UNSCOM inspectors warned us all before the invasion that the job had been done and that Saddam had no WMD's. No, Bush had a mandate from the people and international support for going after and eliminating Al Qaida. He did a damn good job in hitting Afghanistan so quick and effectively that the Taliban toppled and Al Qaida went underground. But then, instead of settling down to the rooting out of Al Qaida in the caves of Afghanistan and Pakistan . . . Bush went off half cocked, with little popular support and few allies and invaded an Arab country that never attacked us. Result . . . international scorn, Arab intransigence, Muslim hate, military frustration, political disaster, and the opportunity for bin Ladin to establish bases and forces in Iraq to attack the convenient American targets that Bush has provided for him.
So then why did most of the Democrats cast a vote authorizing the use of force against Hussein? Oh wait, they were tricked. I also guess that it wasn't many high ranking Democrats making the case for Husseins removal back when Clinton was president. It all started with Bush.
About a month ago I heard a British intelligence official speak about the Iraq war and Bin Laden.His name is Michael Shrimpton.According to Shrimpton,there is plenty of evidence to tie Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden.The two had begun meeting in 1989,and documents provided by the Iraqi National Congress link Bin laden to the Iraqi 'Mukhabarat' intelligence organization as far back as 1992.The mukhabarat was heavily involved in the planning and execution of 9/11. He also pointed out that Iraq had stolen a boeing 767 simulator from kuwait during the persian gulf war,which was later sent to a terrorist training camp where it was later used to train the terrorists involved in the attack.He also stated that both the U S and British knew the wmd had been moved out of Iraq between sept 2002 and march 2003,and that both Germany and France had supported the Iraqi WMD program.the germany -iraq alliance goes all the way back to ww2 when the Nazi's helped the baath party in iraq.And last he says that the U S govenment was compelled to keep quiet about the iraq -bin Laden connection due to pressure from the Chinese ,who threatened to dump a trillion dollars of us treasury bills on the market
No, apparently you don't. You attacked the credibility of the administration for claiming Bin Laden was doing something that Saddam Hussein obviously would never allow. I was merely pointing out that you were wrong in that sense because when this was being planned, Saddam had already been ousted. Of course the administration is going to find every which way to find something that would support their decision. They'd be stupid not to.
