Aug 13 2006
Democrat Attempts To Divide Iraq From Terror War Will Not Work
The Democrats are desperately trying to separate Iraq from the war on terror and the UK Airliner Plot. Too bad it will not work. Why? Because, as I noted below, two Iraqis were complicit in the UK Airliner Plot. And that was with the US led Coalition and the Democratically elected Iraqi government in charge of the country instead of Saddam Hussein. Just contemplate the death and destruction Islamo-Fascists could have laid upon the world from the safe havens of Iraq, Iran and Syria – with a nuclear armed Libya to protect them. No, the fact Iraqis were two key members of the UK plot only demonstrates the fact we are seeing today the least posible threats if we had left balance of power in the ME as it stood on 9-11. We are not going back to 9-10, when we learned of threats and did something only when bodies fell from the skies and rained down upon us.
And several of the the 9/11 terrorist were Saudi Arabian as is Osama Bin Laden, do you want us to invade them? Several of the London terrorists were Pakistani, should we invade them? Your logic escapes me unless you are advocating that we invade and occupy each and every country that a terrorist comes from, in that case we will be quite busy for a very long time.
Saddam Hussein was the ONLY country in that region to NOT arrest al Qaeda affiliates post 9-11.
Even the countries whose track records on terrorism are abysmal, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan ALL arrested at least some members of al Qaeda. Saddam was passed along the information of Zarqawi and his crew’s locations and did nothing. Those who were arrested were immediately released and warned that the Jordanians were after them.
Thousands of jihadis were trained in Iraq, BY SADDAM’S REGIME, pre invasion.
He sheltered one of the 9-11 hijackers (Ahmad Hikmat Shakir), one of the masterminds of the first WTC attack (Abdul Rahman Yasin), funded and armed Ansar al Islam, MEK, PLO, ANO, Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Abu Sayyaf Group, GIA, GSPC, terror groups in Africa and his own IIS was quite active in terrorism, including attacks on Americans.
It’s absurd to the point of being insulting to continue hearing this drum beat, particularly being someone who has studied this topic (it’s basically the ONLY thing I read about) for three years now while putting together http://www.regimeofterror.com.
Was Saddam secular? Yes, absolutely. Does that mean he wasn’t part of the war on Islamofascists? Maybe, but he certainly was assisting them, not that Democrats even make the argument that we are fighting Islamofascists, but aside from that the only arguments against Saddam being part of the war on terror are flat out ignorance or naked partisanship.
Also, SDMODERATE,
The argument that we shouldn’t disarm terrorist sponsors because that somehow obligates us to disarm ALL of them is nonsense. The all or nothing attitude is just a prescription for inaction.
As Ralph Peters said, “That’s like saying since I want to retire with $10 million and I can’t save that much money…I just shouldn’t save ANYTHING”
Explain why removing Saddam obligates us to disarm ALL terrorism sponsoring dictators ? (To say nothing of dictators who’ve broken countless UN resolutions, attacked its neighbors repeatedly, used WMD on its own people and neighbors, kill off gobs of their own population each year, starve his own people while enriching himself on illegit oil sales, etc)
SD
No disrespect meant or intended. But you remind me of the employee when asked to do a simple task replied “I can’t do it, it’s too hard”.
Let me rephrase that …ex employee.
Some people look for a job, others look for a position.
I associate positions with the Karma Sutra, and this is not a productive workplace activity that moves any company forward.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that stated
Republican get ahead
Dems get head
You decide
SD you said:
“Several of the London terrorists were Pakistani, should we invade them? Your logic escapes me unless you are advocating that we invade and occupy each and every country that a terrorist comes from, in that case we will be quite busy for a very long time.”
Or to use Merlin’s comment in another way,
“” No disrespect meant or intended. But you remind me of the employee when asked to do a simple task replied “I can’t do it, it’s too hardâ€.””
If that employee said,” you’ve given me so much to do, I can’t possibly do it all so I’m not even gonna start,”
My friend told me that one day he was cruising down the interstate in a long line of cars, all exceeding 80 MPH when suddenly a state trooper pulled up along side him, turned on his blue lights and signaled for him to stop. After stopping, the trooper approached him and he asked the trooper” say, I just have to ask, I was in a solid line of cars, all going the same speed, how did you single me out to pull over?” The trooper’s response “Can’t get em all, gotta start somewhere” In the case of Iraq, they looked at the time like the worst offender, we started ‘somewhere’. So far some others have slowed down a bit, sooner or later, most of them will also.