al-Zarqawi is dead

[The_Dark]

OK. Thats one down... Osma bin-fucking sheep is next

[Brenda Starrr]

Why is it so hard to find a 6ft 5in Iraqui, dragging a dialisys machine? I mean, come on.

[phee]

That is great news, that dude was an evil sadistic bastard...

But Osama is too cushy lovey dubby with the Bush family money to get caught during this administration...

[The_Dark]

What 6ft Iraqi would that be?

[Brenda Starrr]

Bin Laden. Sheesh.

[phee]

What 6ft Iraqi would that be?

Yeah um.... Bin Laden is NOT IRAQI... and if you think he is, then the FOX channel has gotten to you.... Osama is Saudi....

[phee]

....

[Brenda Starrr]

Yeah um.... Bin Laden is NOT IRAQI... and if you think he is, then the FOX channel has gotten to you.... Osama is Saudi....

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Whatever. He's still a dirtbag on dialisys. Just look for the cord.

[phee]

Whatever. He's still a dirtbag on dialisys. Just look for the cord.

Actually Bin Laden HATED IRAQ and Hussain with a passion until the U.S. Propoganda lumped them into the same catagory... it is a very important distinction to make...

When we attacked Iraq for the 9/11 and Ben Laden terrorism... it would be like if we had invaded Mexico for Pearl Harbor bombing...

[The_Dark]

phee.. it's not like you to talk out your ass. stop it. Even if you spout liberal propoganda... those were never two of the reasons given for the invasion. Those topics came up years after the fact...

[Brenda Starrr]

Okay. This is all getting over my head now. I'm steppin' away.....

[The_Dark]

*pats brenda on the head* It's ok dear... you just sit there and look pretty

[phee]

phee.. it's not like you to talk out your ass. stop it. Even if you spout liberal propoganda... those were never two of the reasons given for the invasion. Those topics came up years after the fact...

I am not... because of the Poropoganda in the News (not directly the administration) 60% of Americans in 2003 thought that Osama was Iraqi...

And here are some of the reasons Bush gave

washington post

Officials don't want Saddam's fate to become the only measure of the war's success. They realize now that it was a mistake in the early days after the Sept. 11 attacks to make al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden the embodiment of the war on terrorism.

from USA Today

"The [2004] study," Lynn adds, "also finds that the Bush administration switched its focus from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein early on - only five months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States."

from here

A little more than a week earlier, while speaking (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050822-1.html) to the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Salt Lake City, Utah, "Bush again linked (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050822/pl_nm/bush_dc) the Iraq war with efforts to protect the United States from another September 11-style attack -- a link critics say is an attempt to shift the justification for war."

[phee]

These sources might be incorrect (and maybe they are... I believe they are womewhat reputable)... but I don't talk out of my ass if I can help it....

[phee]

"In October 2002, Mr Bush said: 'We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases.

So yes those were reasons given

[The_Dark]

After the fact.

[phee]

OK... how bout these? These were given before the fact

George W. Bush

2002

"The regime has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist groups, and there are Al Qaida terrorists inside Iraq." - George W. Bush Delivers Weekly Radio Address, White House (9/28/2002) - BushOnIraq.com

"We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases." - President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat; Remarks by the President on Iraq, White House (10/7/2002) - Whitehouse.gov

"I think they're both equally important, and they're both dangerous. And as I said in my speech in Cincinnati, we will fight if need be the war on terror on two fronts. We've got plenty of capacity to do so. And I also mentioned the fact that there is a connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The war on terror, Iraq is a part on the war on terror. And he must disarm." - President Condems Attack in Bali, White House (10/14/2002) - Whitehouse.gov

"This is a man who has got connections with Al Qaida. Imagine a terrorist network with Iraq as an arsenal and as a training ground, so that a Saddam Hussein could use this shadowy group of people to attack his enemy and leave no fingerprint behind. He's a threat." - Remarks by the President in Texas Welcome, White House (11/4/2002) - Whitehouse.gov

"He's a threat because he is dealing with Al Qaida. In my Cincinnati speech I reminded the American people, a true threat facing our country is that an Al Qaida-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and leave not one fingerprint." - President Outlines Priorities, White House (11/7/2002) - BushOnIraq.gov

"He's had contacts with Al Qaida. Imagine the scenario where an Al Qaida-type organization uses Iraq as an arsenal, a place to get weapons, a place to be trained to use the weapons. Saddam Hussein could use surrogates to come and attack people he hates." - Remarks by the President at Arkansas Welcome, White House (11/4/2002) - BushOnIraq.com

and

Bush knew no Iraq link pre-9/11: report

US President George W Bush was informed 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks that US intelligence had no proof of links between Iraq and this act of terror, The National Journal reported today.

Citing government documents as well as past and present Bush administration officials, the magazine said the president was briefed on September 21, 2001 that evidence of cooperation between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was insufficient.

Bush was also informed that there was some credible information about contacts between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda that showed that the Iraqi dictator had tried to establish surveillance over the group, according to the report.

Saddam Hussein believed the radical Islamic network represented a threat for his secular regime...

http://smh.com.au/news/world/bush-knew-no-iraq-link-pre...

[phee]

My point being that Bush was very quick to try to create a link between Al Qaida and Iraq, and he did use it as justification for the war.... That is all that I am saying...

That being said... now that the U.S. has created through it's actions the link between the 2... I am very happy that that bastard Zarqawi is dead.... the world is a better place without him...

[Blackmail]

My point being that Bush was very quick to try to create a link between Al Qaida and Iraq, and he did use it as justification for the war.... That is all that I am saying...

That being said... now that the U.S. has created through it's actions the link between the 2... I am very happy that that bastard Zarqawi is dead.... the world is a better place without him...

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Actually Al-Zarqawi was in iraq before the war. The link may be weak, but it's not like their is no link at all.

[phee]

Actually Al-Zarqawi was in iraq before the war.  The link may be weak, but it's not like their is no link at all.

I can go with that I suppose

[Msterbeau]

His death will probably mean very little in terms of people getting killed and the level of terrorist activity. Not that it's a bad thing that we got him..

[phee]

His death will probably mean very little in terms of people getting killed and the level of terrorist activity.  Not that it's a bad thing that we got him..

Indeed

[The_Dark]

It did drop the pricew of oil by 3-5 dollars per barrell.

[phee]

It did drop the pricew of oil by 3-5 dollars per barrell.

Zounds!!!

[BrassFusion]

It did drop the pricew of oil by 3-5 dollars per barrell.

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BULLLLSHIIIIIIIIIIT I'll believe it when I see lower gas prices.