What is your opinion on the link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda?

Question

The senate has found there is no link. Now, the DEMS are gonna beat this into the ground so don't ride on this curtail too long!

I know there will also be defenders saying 'there are other terrorists', and there are. That is right...but the AQ-Saddam connection was the one touted, and that was (along with WMDs) the reason for the impending danger.

These facts, and the fact that this is another bipartisan study, in mind...what are some opinions on the case for war in Iraq?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_on_go_co/iraq_report

Jesi -
Phenominal point. I think they simply let themselves be decieved, especially the wishy washy dems. All politics.

"Just agree with it now because you don't want to be against a popular (at that time) prez. If we have to spin why we did to look better when this comes out, we'll do it"

A bunch of crap

Answer 1

What is equally unbelievable is that there were two bipartisan congressional committees that vetted this information and recommended entering Iraq to both houses of Congress who approved it overwhelmingly. How could so many people not see it for what it was?

Pre-war, members of both parties and Colin Powell were warning everyone to be cautious with information as the frame of reference of the provider needs to be taken into consideration. Israel had a vested interest, as did the other anti-Saddam factions in Iraq, and they were the biggest sorces of information we had.

And yet high profile members of both parties made statements supporting the war that included the phrase "based on what we know" or "based on the evidence we have", and in some of these speeches the polticians claim to have reviewed the "evidence".

How can so many people be so horribly deceived? Why were the few voices of sanity ignored to lead the bipartisan charge into war?

Answer 2

It seems that there was indeed no link, but that's no surprise - even in our own beloved political system the left hand doesn't always know what the left elbow is up to.
But even though SH & OBL weren't in bed together they certainly share a certain distain for all things Western, which in the minds of many Americans is as good as a signed & witnessed deal. Heck, Britain & the UK are our staunch allies but we seldom see eye-to-eye with them on any given subject, so it should come as no great surprise to find that Islam suffers from the same sort of disconnection on any given level.

Answer 3

There isn't a connection. There was never a significant connection. It's been proven over and over again. Senate proved it. The U.N proved it. OUR TROUPS proved it. The fact of the matter is Bush said in the DEBATES against Gore that he saw Saddam as a threat and would like to take action against him (that's WAY before 9/11 gave him an excuse). We choose to forget that.

We choose to forget that there was no evidence of WMDs. We choose to forget that the real bad guy, Osama Bin-Ladin, is still alive and at large. Americans are treating this war like a sporting event. "Either root for this guy or get out of the stadium. Yay team."

My family was all military. I grew up military. This war disgusts me. The only thing more disgusting to me than the fact that there was never a connection is that there are enough ignoramuses out there that believe in a connection to keep sending kids to die. When did the sharp drop in the I.Q. of this country occur?

Answer 4

No link existed, there is no proof today and there will be no proof in the future. Anyone who beleives otherwise is a hardcore Bush supporter and will not be convinced of an alternative anyway. The war on Iraq was justified, just not for any of the reasons that Bush submitted to the country.
It was also poorly planned and executed without any long term objective plan. It is pathetic.

Answer 5

AFP - Former US president bill Clinton reported in October for the time of a pass to to Portugal that he became into confident Iraq had weapons of mass destruction up till the fall of Saddam Hussein, Portuguese best Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso reported. "whilst Clinton became into right here those days he instructed me he became into truthfully confident, given his years in the White living house and the get entry to to privileged counsel which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction till the tip of the Saddam regime," he reported in an interview with Portuguese cable information channel SIC Noticias. Clinton, a Democrat who left place of work in 2001, met with Durao Barroso on October 21 whilst he travelled to Lisbon to furnish a speech on globalisation. the U. S. justified going to conflict against Iraq final twelve months stating the possibility posed by making use of Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction. Republican President George W Bush used Iraq's nuclear, chemical and organic and organic weapons classes and Saddam Hussein's ties to terrorism because of the fact the main case to the United international locations for the U. S.-led conflict against Iraq.

Answer 6

It was a blatant lie. Infact, Al-Qaeda had put a hit out on Saddam's head prior to 9/11, and many of the reasons they "hate" the US are the same reason they "hate" Iraq (desecrating Muslim holy land, persecution and support of Muslim people, etc). But that's if you believe that Al-Qaeda really exists...which I don't.

Answer 7

True.

If this doesnt show what a dishonest power grab the Republicans have been doing,and how they have EXPLOITED 9-11 to gain more power(and votes) nothing else will.

In all fairness and decency,the incumbent Republicans need to be removed for this.Period.

This is NOT a "well,all politicians lie" sort of thing.

Answer 8

Even Bush says there was no link. I was scared by a recent poll that said many Americans (fewer than half, but not by much) believe there was a link.

Answer 9

i think the 9/11 commission report also found no link b/w saddam and al qaida b/c it goes to the fact even arabs are not united. each tries to have their own power and it doesn't help the cause for entering Iraq.

Answer 10

Yellow cake, was that what Saddam was eating when he met with Rumsfeld (a fact)?
Another neocon fabrication.