Iraq and Al Qaeda
Posted by Moonage on 25 Sep 2004 | Tagged as: International Politics
Still like to think Hussein had no ties to Al Qaeda? That the war was not justified? Read this then:
Now, buried in some of the United Nation’s own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort. (To review a series of documents, audits and other stories related to Oil-for-Food, click here.)
That’s from a MUCH larger article.
Hussein was abetting Al Qaeda with funds from the Oil for Food program. There is no question in my mind at all.
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on 28 Sep 2004 at 4:41 pm 1.fling93 said …
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My take is that whatever ties there might have been between al Qaeda and Iraq, there are certainly much stronger ties between al Qaeda and Iran — which also has, unlike Iraq, their own nuclear power plants.
Not to mention Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, albeit those are more complicated situations.
Whether you believe invasion of Iran is called for, certainly you’d like to at least have military leverage over them. And when I argued this with JohnGaltII, he was of the opinion that we could be done with Iraq quickly and could then move on to deal with Iran and Saudi Arabia. But I think I had a more accurate view of what the occupation would entail.
on 28 Sep 2004 at 5:24 pm 2.Moonage
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I really don’t feel an invasion of Iran is necessary at this time. They are working with the UN inspectors for the most part, some of the time, they have not shown aggression towards other countries, and although there are some ties to Al Qaeda, I feel those ties are stronger elsewhere. The key to Iran is to keep the political and economic pressure on them until they realize the consequences are greater than the rewards. If they are developing a nuclear program for purely peaceful reasons, as they assert, then there is no problem and they shouldn’t have issues with inspectors. The problem with Iraq was not nuclear, it was the fact they were militarily aggressive towards us, had questionable ties to terrorism, had declared war on us, were shooting missiles at us, and were blatanly supporting terrorism elsewhere ( Palestine and Iran ).