Iraq Is Not Connected To 9/11!

[Msterbeau]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060912/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4

He admitted it long ago..

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/attack/140133_bushiraq18.html

And the Al-Qeada connection has been disproved as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Jun16.html

So why does he keep bringing it up???????????????????? Because he and his party are seriously in trouble in this fall's elections. It's too bad so many people continue to believe his distortions.

[Der Nister]

So why does he keep bringing it up???????????????????? Because he and his party are seriously in trouble in this fall's elections. It's too bad so many people continue to believe his distortions.

To quote Frank Zappa my friend

There is no shortage of stupidity in America.

That is how a moron like Mr. Double U is where he is today.

[phee]

Grrr

[Paper Hearts]

This isn't news. The 9/11 Commission concluded that a connection between "Iraq" and Al Queda "just isn't there". This conlusion was made about a year after the war there had began and released for print a year after that with no ammendments. Also, they found that Saddam Hussein's Iraq couldn't even be listed in the top five threats to the United States...and for economic reasons, was day by day, steadily becoming less of a threat to the US at the begining of fighting.

Nor could Iraq truly be considered a part of the War on Terrorism as Terrorism is a tactic rather than a nation or an army and at any rate, is not possible, by deffinition, on a "battlefield".

[Msterbeau]

This isn't news. The 9/11 Commission concluded that a connection between "Iraq" and Al Queda "just isn't there". This conlusion was made about a year after the war there had began and released for print a year after that with no ammendments. Also, they found that Saddam Hussein's Iraq couldn't even be listed in the top five threats to the United States...and for economic reasons, was day by day, steadily becoming less of a threat to the US at the begining of fighting.

Nor could Iraq truly be considered a part of the War on Terrorism as Terrorism is a tactic rather than a nation or an army and at any rate, is not possible, by deffinition, on a "battlefield".

No shit it isn't news... but he keeps bringing it up in the hopes that enough people have forgotten that there's no connection.

[Paper Hearts]

Yes, well I assume that his motives changing so frequently are all part of his (new) "adapt and overcome" strategy. *sic*

[Onyx]

I wonder what would happen if we got all our military out of other countries and stayed out of their business completlely?

[phee]

I wonder what would happen if we got all our military out of other countries and stayed out of their business completlely?

I have theories....

You see there is a double edged sword there.... The U.S. kind of has the worst of both worries... when we send our power into a place.... we are hated for showing up... then when we leave... we are hated for abandoning... this is an over simplification... but there is truth to it.

[torn asunder]

I have theories....

You see there is a double edged sword there.... The U.S. kind of has the worst of both worries... when we send our power into a place.... we are hated for showing up... then when we leave... we are hated for abandoning... this is an over simplification... but there is thruth to it.

true dat...

[Paper Hearts]

What we really have is a war on certain fundamentals of Islam that sometimes uses terrorism. And we're really meant to be in the early stages of a psychological war concerning what is really just Islam. Although, the dialogue used by our leaders attempts to significantly dumb us down, it's our true purpose in Iraq. And truthfully, "radical" Islam sees us a threat to it's freedom rather than being as we're spoken to "people who hate freedom" and that's been the problem all along, including what happened at the World Trade Center. And what's more, according to Islam, a muslim follower does have the right to kill those who threaten the existence of their faith and to take revenge for any wrong doing against members of their religion. Attempting to force Islam to amend this part of itself is impossible for any member, as the words are believed to be God's words...no person is seen as fit to ignore or replace them.

So, It's easy to see why each day puts us further behind, especially taking into account things like what happened at Abu Ghraib...and which has been revealed to be a part of systematic policy used universally at American facilities (such as Guantanamo) where Arabic prisoners are held, rather than late night shenanigans by bored people working the grave yard shift. Indeed, we now know that the photographs themselves (the ones we saw on television) were a part of the process of interrogation rather than just snapshots of that cruelty. The detainees were threatened with having the compromising pictures sent to their families if they didn't admit to certain crimes or provide wanted information to our (their) authorities. And we know that death is preferable to being naked with other members of your sex or without marriage (especially in the positions endured) as it is one of the greatest disgraces possible in Arab culture. - Female detainees often attempt to communicate to their families that their families must kill them if the Americans should release them for the shame we had made them, before Allah, through these practices. And this is just 'for instance'. We could also list "pre-emptive" aggression in Iraq.

What these "terrorists" are offering to us is that forced Democracy is actually dictatorship.

And this isn't truly "radical" Islam. 60% of Syrians and 35% of Pakistanis sympathize with Osama Bin Ladin, for example. In turn, 1 in 4 Americans feel that our Arab American citizens should be made to live in internment camps while 50% of Americans believe that Arab American citizens should be made to carry special identification cards 'proving their innocence' and legitimacy, as Jews in Nazi Germany, at all times, according to polls by BBC and ABC.

Having said all this, I do see certain aspects of Islam as actually wrong when forcibly applied and I do see that as dangerous. My argument is that in the way we (our administration) are handling things (see above example of torture) we're only making it worse. Where we had Al Qaeda we now have maybe hundreds of offshoots where Osama Bin Ladin is only an inspiration instead of tactical leader. At some point, it’s better if we had taken responsibility for who we claim to be rather than what the September 11 attacks have made us, under the obviously weak direction of our leaders, hence. -The ones who constantly seek to change our laws inorder to put themselves in the "right".

Iraq was not so much a threat as it was a soft target in that it was lead by a great scapegoat named Sadam Hussein.