That is one man's opinion. Do you not understand the difference between posting the opinion of a guy as opposed to actual evidence? Like evidence from people who were there and saw things, money trails like our CIA tracked back to the Saudis.... you posted one opinion, can you tell me why the man never backed it up with anything?
Yet, not a shred of proof has been offered and when Cheney got hammered for claiming such connections existed, he took it in the teeth. If there was even a single scrap of evidence, do you seriously doubt Bush would be waving it over his head at a press conference? Honestly?
This is well known and very old news. Bin laden was looking for money back then, Hussein wanted to hear him out because he knew that OBL could be a threat. Hussein listened and then told him to go f--k a camel. There was ZERO interaction after that between Hussein and Bin laden, except for the constant threats Bin laden made towards Iraq and promises to overthrow Hussein.
No, Iraq certainly DID RESPOND.... and the suggestion was that OBL could put it where the sun don't shine.
The claim is that there is not a shred of tangible evidence showing any collaboartive or material support of any kind between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and the lefties who said it were our own CIA. Again, you can't honestly believe that if Bush had any document (even a forged one like the Niger document) he wouldn't be screaming "I told you so!" at the top of his lungs?
Exactly how does supporting the PLO threaten us or how did that help AQ on the 9/11 attack? Isn't that a stretch?
The Abu Nidal thing has been thoroughly discounted. The guy went through like a tourist. We had Fidel castro attending college in the US for about six years and he even played minor league baseball (a pitcher). I suppose that proves the US was collaborating and supporting the communist revolution in Cuba? Get real. You can't throw a handful of camel poop in the middle east without hitting somebody who is supposed to be a terrorist.
As to the urban myth of the terrorist training camps inside Iraq... I'll repeat my challenge that always goes unanswered: any photos? We have hundreds of sat photos of garbage trucks supposedly hauling nuclear wate... but something as big as a camp with no feet couldn't be caught on film?
The only confirmed "terrorist camp" was some squatters who elbowed the Kurds over in northern Iraq for a while to hide in a region that they knew saddam did not control or defend (that's why the Kurds hang out there) near the Turkey border. Our intel said they were Hezbollah, not Al qaeda. The myth of the camps all through Iraq with Al qaeda training are just that: myths. In reality, we have tons of pictures of AQ training camps: they are all in pakistan.
Sorry, but Shakespeare said it best: All his golden words are spent...... But they didn't go anywhere. And still no answer to the core question: Bush went to war claiming Iraq was in bed with terroism. He stood on the deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln and claimed he had "taken away an ally of Al qaeda". He got his ass thoroughly kicked for that because he could NOT back any of it up.
You say that everybody KNOWS about all these connections..... yet where is even a shred of anyhting you can point o besides some guy saying: "Oh, yeah... it was there... shadowy, but it was in there somewhere."
Give me a break. The CIA has been scouring documents in Iraq for over a yaer and we keep hearing about the "smoking gun" they found proving Hussein was this or that... yet, still nothing. I ain't holding my breath.
