I can't believe people still believe this. I was a good sound bit back when but no one believes it now.
Truth hurts. President Bush doesn’t do sound bites in case you’ve not been paying attention. And your brilliant solutions to the gwot? Or are you a non-believer in Islamists as well?
Freeing Iraq from Saddam was a good reason to fight the war even if there were never any WMDs.
The mistake was not in taking out Saddam, but in trying to set up a democracy in a place where the population would perfer to kill each other based on religious nuances (vs. places like Germany, Japan, etc. where the population is homogeneous).
We should have just handed everything over to the next generalismo, as we have done before. Or simply let them finish killing each other and let Iran and the Saudis divvy the place up.
Rudy was right - 9/11 has nothing to do with US policy. Osama is a nutcase, and unfortunately has a lot of followers who believe his nonsense.