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dear mr b*u*s*h
I don't know why you and your friends are having so many problems understanding this:
Osama Bin Laden was not a friend of Saddam Hussein and did not plan any attacks with him. Saddam was a very unpopular man all over the world. Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction lying around Iraq. Invading Iraq has no logical connection to the events of 9/11, other than to show the world that the US government is keen on embroiling itself in another useless war and likes to have idiot patsies who will go along with this.
If you would like me to explain this to you in more detail, then please give me a ring and arrange a time to come over. I know you don't have my phone number and I am ex directory, but I'm sure you can get someone to track it down. Wish you could find that Osama though.
mrs mcmuffin on 29 Jun 2005 @ 07:44 PM ✲ Permalink
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When I was over the pond recently I'm sure there was a news story confirming that the CIA/FBI/MFI or whatever know where Osama is, just haven't got around to picking him up yet.
Yeah. Right.
Posted by: Em | 29 Jun 2005 20:55:07
Come come now. Lots of people disagree with the Iraq war but there's no need to reinvent history. The administration never said that Saddam and bin Laden planned 9/11 together, and Bush didn't say so last night either. After 9/11, it became clear to many that the places where Islamist terrorists were flourishing, or at least tolerated, were a threat to the civilized world. And there are many, many links between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda, not to mention al Qaeda today is operating in Iraq. There aren't two different al Qaeda's, they are the same terrorists with the same goals.
Links between Iraq and terrorists, including al Qaeda --
1) Ahmed Hikmat Shakir — the Iraqi Intelligence operative who facilitated a 9/11 hijacker into Malaysia and was in attendance at the Kuala Lampur meeting with two of the hijackers, and other conspirators, at what is roundly acknowledged to be the initial 9/11 planning session in January 2000. Who was arrested after the 9/11 attacks in possession of contact information for several known terrorists. Who managed to make his way out of Jordanian custody over our objections after the 9/11 attacks because of special pleading by Saddam’s regime.
2) The Clinton Justice Department's allegation in a 1998 indictment (two months before the embassy bombings) against bin Laden, to wit: In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.
3) Seized Iraq Intelligence Service records indicating that Saddam's henchmen regarded bin Laden as an asset as early as 1992.
4) Saddam's hosting of al Qaeda No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri beginning in the early 1990’s, and reports of a large payment of money to Zawahiri in 1998.
5) Saddam’s ten years of harboring of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin.
6) Iraqi Intelligence Service operatives being dispatched to meet with bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998 (the year of bin Laden’s fatwa demanding the killing of all Americans, as well as the embassy bombings).
7) Saddam’s official press lionizing bin Laden as “an Arab and Islamic hero” following the 1998 embassy bombing attacks.
8) The continued insistence of high-ranking Clinton administration officials to the 9/11 Commission that the 1998 retaliatory strikes (after the embassy bombings) against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory were justified because the factory was a chemical weapons hub tied to Iraq and bin Laden.
9) Top Clinton administration counterterrorism official Richard Clarke’s assertions, based on intelligence reports in 1999, that Saddam had offered bin Laden asylum after the embassy bombings, and Clarke’s memo to then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, advising him not to fly U-2 missions against bin Laden in Afghanistan because he might be tipped off by Pakistani Intelligence, and “[a]rmed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad”. (See 9/11 Commission Final Report, p. 134 & n.135.)
10) Terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi's choice to boogie to Baghdad of all places when he needed surgery after fighting American forces in Afghanistan in 2001.
11) Saddam's Intelligence Service running a training camp at Salman Pak, were terrorists were instructed in tactics for assassination, kidnapping and hijacking.
I'm not at all thrilled with the way the war is going, but there's no need to misrepresent the arguments that are being made in favor of it.
Posted by: Sarah | 29 Jun 2005 20:56:26
Iraq - 9/11 - Usama Bin Laden - War on Terror are all NOW inextricably linked because Mr. Bush has turned Iraq into the official terrorist training camp. He has made it so.
Posted by: onel | 29 Jun 2005 22:09:27
Oh Mrs McMuffin, how dare you - of all things - blog without doing your homework first? How will we ever convince the Eyeraquis that our way is the better way?
Posted by: David.2 | 30 Jun 2005 09:12:55
Dear Mrs. McMuffin,
I'll be over tonight. Thank you. I have been wondering why no one would talk to me.
Love, George.
ps. Can we have "bangers and mash?" I love that stuff.
Posted by: George Bush | 30 Jun 2005 16:59:14
Sarah is wrong.
Posted by: Karan | 30 Jun 2005 21:37:54
You guys just missed getting lots of comments so you thought you would stir the pot, come on, admit it.
Posted by: jo | 30 Jun 2005 23:10:38
If only I was that clever!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 1 Jul 2005 08:20:30
I love the succinctness of Karan's comment :-D
I watched "The power og nightmares" - so now I don't even believe in al Quaeda!
Posted by: Steve | 1 Jul 2005 17:03:07
I am a very good friend of Saddam. In fact Saddy and I share telepathic conferences in which we are planning his liberation and the consequent war against the rest of the world. I just wish that people would get it right about my relationship with Al- Zaquari...he is a mad dog that I sometimes unleash against the forces of the Great Satan, we are not good friends.
Posted by: Osama | 4 Jul 2005 15:15:05
