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Report Details Saddam's Terrorist Ties
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Submitted by Pat Kean, Mar 15, 2008 04:10

Hamas, Islamic Jiihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, all birds of a feather wanting America dead. All these groups are linked, and were in early 2003, most through Iran. To mince words is political. Saddam had $billions and access to the best technology money could buy. If Bush had not invaded Hussien would have wriggled out of UN sanctions by now, reconstituted who knows what, and had continued his trouble making in the region.

Iraq has always been an attempt to build a beach-head in the middle east. The aim is to help establish a stable Arab state with a high standard of living like Israel. An event that would end the oft claim Israel and America steal in order to be rich by terrorists, and thier socialist enablers in the region, Europe, and yes here in the good old USA. This is why Iran is funding shaped weapons, communications, training, and safe haven for the "insurgents". Attacks are coordinated using cell phones routed through global telecommunications, including here in the US, and people like Jason are still spouting verbal peristalsus, and you know what that moves...

A successful Iraq plugged into the EU one day by superhighway-rail, applying its true wealth - the Tigress Euprates valley into the global economy is exactly what the radical islamic movement doesn't want. For Jason that's spelled Imperial Valley Calif potential times twenty. Iraq's agricultural potential, and climate in the winter has much more economic potential than its oil. Apply rule of law capitalism and Iraq would quickly become one of the richest per captia societies in the world.

In regard to the $trillion cost. A question for Jason: State such numbers in the context of the cost a radicalized Iraq-Iran superstate on the world? How about Hugo Chavez on steroids. Saddam's few billions for global terrorsist organizations, growing to tens of billions per year. With these kinds of funds, "World is Flat" access to technology one would soon find all kinds of trillion dollar bills. A collapse of global commerce, the dollar/euro/yen/yuan, no assured delivery of goods and services between nations. The situation would make the fall of Rome a cakewalk. Society for billions demolished. The end result half or more of the world's population starved to death within ten years of Jiihadists establishing thier Caliphate.

An earlier form of Radical Islam for the period, by the end of the 12th century destroyed the lives of countless in the Middle East though to the 21st. More science and creative thought is done in Rhode Island than Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza, Egypt, and Jordan combined. That is what this is all about, the eternal struggle between tyranny and rule of law freedom. The 21st Century's NAZI form of Islam, spawned through hate and international socialist-communist dogma is much worse. The Pentagon "paper" offered little new that anyone with a whisp of effort could have been aware of three months after Saddam was removed. Most leftists will twist this report around with assistance to the same type of "journalistic fact finding" as one witnessed about McCain in the NY Times.

That my friend will spawn a real crime against humanity...

Pat Kean

Kihei Maui Hawaii

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Since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he and Osama bin Laden had been bitter enemies, they hated each other. To think... [MORE]	Joe Lang	Mar 19, 2008 17:22
Who here is trusting the Pengaton at this point? [MORE]	j	Mar 19, 2008 03:29
For G-d's sake don't let the Liberals see this article!!!! [MORE]	Jacques Bakke	Mar 16, 2008 22:24
Just more rhetoric from the Republicans trying to justify a war not worthy of the cost in blood and money.... [MORE]	Chuck	Mar 16, 2008 00:15
Chuck, The real benefits of the Iraq War have been the reduction in nuclear proliferation (Libya's surrender of it's nuke program... [MORE]	Victor T	Mar 18, 2008 10:57
I have read the actual report, and even if one assumes that it represents a honest assessment of Saddam's... [MORE]	Joe	Mar 15, 2008 21:45
The libs have always wanted us to believe that Al Queda wasn't in Iraq. So what. They were in Miami.... [MORE]	Dot Garlow	Mar 15, 2008 21:30
None of this could EVER matter to the left-leaning, anti-American, "no war under any circumstances" mentality. If, hypothetically, there was... [MORE]	JDH	Mar 18, 2008 13:58
Lefties...your diatribe about hating the US is getting old, please move to Iran, pal around /w Chavez or Cuba please...then... [MORE]	JRB	Mar 15, 2008 13:44
If you are really a "liberal", which among other things means, "open minded" and suject ot change views, then dare... [MORE]	J. Alejandro	Mar 15, 2008 08:16
I no longer argue this whole point. The "hate-Bush" crowd that didn't seem to utter one peep when Clinton pimped... [MORE]	Scott	Mar 14, 2008 21:38
Years after the first Iraq war and not long after the arms inspectors were asked to leave Iraq, a story... [MORE]	Jack Avery	Mar 14, 2008 21:06
Unfortunantely, I just heard a local radio host, in St. Louis, claim that there was "no direct tie between Saddam... [MORE]	Don	Mar 14, 2008 12:27
Well, why do you think they call it "National Partisan Radio"......? Your tax dollars hard at work! [MORE]	Nor Meyer	Mar 14, 2008 13:11
There was no "direct link" aka a treaty/agreement/understanding between Saddam and AQ. Saddam had no links to the 9/11 attack,... [MORE]	Steven	Mar 14, 2008 13:34
The Pentagon report makes it clear that Saddam had ties to terrorists, but none to Al Qaeda as the Bush... [MORE]	Boom	Mar 14, 2008 17:04
The Pentagon report makes it clear that Saddam had ties to terrorists, but none to Al Qaeda as the Bush... [MORE]	Shayne	Mar 14, 2008 20:18
No matter how you try to color it, the fact that Al Qaeda had tining camps in IRAQ while Hussein... [MORE]	KB	Mar 15, 2008 08:01
You wouldn't believe it if it came up and bit you in the rear end! You simply hate Bush so... [MORE]	LB	Mar 15, 2008 17:50
Saying there is no connection between Saddam and 9/11, is very different from saying Saddam had ties with Al Qaeda... [MORE]	RandR	Mar 17, 2008 11:42
"Emily Litella's" classic comment when presented with facts that eviscerate her tirade on Saturday Nite Live! shows applies here to... [MORE]	Bill Heller	Mar 14, 2008 11:21
There may not have been a direct OPERATIONAL link between Saddam and al Quiada, but there were certainly ties, support... [MORE]	Kirt	Mar 15, 2008 09:23
No matter how much info is released. People who hate Bush will never believe that he made the right move... [MORE]	larry	Mar 14, 2008 11:06
The missing context: how did the threat of Saddam compare with the other threats we faced? The report proves Saddam... [MORE]	Richard Nixon	Mar 16, 2008 04:37
Terrorist are at war with The West because terrorist believe Islam can not survive against a free market, free speech... [MORE]	Getzel	Mar 14, 2008 08:41
Bill Clinton's Justice Dept., in 1998, tied Al Qaeda and Iraq to weapon's development in Iraq (in the Osama Bin... [MORE]	Victor T	Mar 14, 2008 07:28
Enough said.. the war has cost America our economic fortitude, and Bush is the cause. [MORE]	Jason	Mar 14, 2008 20:10
Hamas, Islamic Jiihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, all birds of a feather wanting America dead. All these groups are...	Pat Kean	Mar 15, 2008 04:10
At well under 1% of ALL gov expenses, only the foolish would believe this leg of the terror wars is... [MORE]	Stu	Mar 15, 2008 08:28
The Duefler Report also found Iran, which Israel has maintained is the true threat in the Middle East, was the... [MORE]	knick49	Mar 15, 2008 17:43
Knick49 leaves out some other facts: In a single move, yes, we took out Saddam (the weakest threat) but also dealt... [MORE]	Victor T	Mar 18, 2008 06:58
The war has been very, very costly. Agreed. But America decided to go in. Seventy percent of Americans and most... [MORE]	Victor T	Mar 18, 2008 10:28
Excellent post by Pat Kean. [MORE]	Victor T	Mar 18, 2008 10:30
Why is it the liberals only complain about the cost of the war on terror? I don't hear them complaining... [MORE]	KO	Mar 18, 2008 12:32

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