Posted on 06/30/2004 3:38:11 PM PDT by Bill Hobbs
The media recently hyped a report from the staff of the 9/11 Commission that said there were no links between Iraq and the 9/11 attack, and the media wrongly claimed the Commission staff had said there were no links between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda, period. Perhaps they should have more carefully read Staff Statement #15, Overview of the Enemy, especially this brief section from page 3:
"With al Qaeda as its foundation, Bin Ladin sought to build a broader Islamic army that also included terrorist groups from Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Oman, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Somalia and Eritrea. Not all groups from these states agreed to join, but at least one from each did. With a multinational council intended to promote common gooals, coordinate targeting and authorize asset sharing for terrorist operations, this Islamic force represented a new level of collaboration among diverse terrorist groups."
The prospect of future coordination, asset-sharing and collaboration between al Qaeda and a weapons-of-mass-destruction-producing/Islamist terrorism-supporting/America-hating Saddam Hussein resulting in an attack on America more horrifying and deadly than 9/11 was the underlying reason - the "grave and gathering danger" - that President Bush stressed as the reason we must remove Saddam from power.
He was right. And 9/11 Commission Staff Statement #15 makes that very clear.
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Too Late. The lie has already been spread. The Dems are and the lib media already defined this issue.
No offense...
But just because a terror group from a country agrees to join Al-Qaeda, it doesn't mean the home country of that terror group (Iraq in this case) was part of the deal.
Just as if Al-Qaeda got the Black Panthers to join them (Pedilla comes to mind), it would certainly not mean the US government was in on it.
Again, No Offense, was just pointing that out.
Nope.
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