Do you think a few of the new immigrants might have had some hard feelings, being we liquified tens of thousands of their buddies? I know it's a stretch, waddya think?
Whether or no former Iraqi soldiers were in some way involved with McVeigh and Nichols, there's this little question of loyalty.
Supposedly (if you can believe our State Department) the Iraqi people are fed up with Saddam Hussein's tyranny and would overthrow him if only we started the ball rolling, which may happen any time.
So given the choice, would an Iraqi who barely escaped death as cannon fodder during the Gulf War be more likely to work for some clandestine intelligence group of the Iraqi government, or . . something more aligned with eventual overthrow of Hussein, such as Hamas or Al Qaeda?
It's too simplistic to paint all Iraqis with that broad brush that makes them appear as loyal leutenants to Saddam Hussein. The fact that they were admitted to this country more or less negates that premise, unless one were to wear tin foil all around and think it was a set-up promoted by Bill Clinton.
Likewise, no one here is going to mistake a couple of Democrat Congressmen in Baghdad for agents of the Bush Administration. Although it's possible that people in Iraq have been brainwashed to believe all Americans want to kill them and their wives and children, in which case Bonior and McDermott were lucky to get out alive.