"The idea that baathists cant cooperate with islamic Iran is so horribly disproven by recent history its hilarious you even bring it up."
I reread my post because I couldn't recall making any such claim. I didn't. Please keep your hilarity confined to comments I actually make. It's more work to engage strawman arguments.
Did you not notice how islamicist-shiite hezbollah in lebanon is sponsored by *both* baathist syria *and* shiite theocratic Iran?
And Saddam and Iraq are where in all this? Not there, but it looks good to suggest there is a connection.
Again, with this myth that they are so far apart. These multiple terrorist groups have different agendas but a COMMON ENEMY ... which is us.
Yes, and Nazis and Soviets had a common enemy and cooperated before they slaughtered each other on the Eastern Front. Somehow having a common enemy isn't quite the same as having common interests.
“Abu Nidal was a secular leftist. He doesn’t help your argument on Islamic terrorism.”
You so completely miss the point it’s not worth arguing anymore.
It’s the TERRORISM-sponsorship stupid. Saddam sponsored, aided, funded, and assisted terrorists, of all stripes.
Including Al Qaeda.
“Again, with this myth that they are so far apart. These multiple terrorist groups have different agendas but a COMMON ENEMY ... which is us.”
“Yes, and Nazis and Soviets had a common enemy and cooperated before they slaughtered each other on the Eastern Front”
So then you MIGHT have a clue how the Saddam/Iraqi Intelligence - Al Qaeda agreement in 1996 to cooperate on weapons and so support eachothers goals, cited by the 1998 indictment of Bin Laden on the Kenyan bombings, has some analogy to the Ribbentrop Agreement of August 1939.... Yes, stuff like that does matter and does get people killed.