Saddam Hussian or Osama bin Laden, which one of these terrorists will you hold accountable for attacking USA?

Question

what is our presidents plan to hunt down the terrorists found responsible for the 9-11 attacks and their leader Osama bin Laden?

Answer 1

royalrunner - Bush DID claim there were links between Osama and Saddam, as did Colin Powell and Dick Cheney.

“You can't distinguish between al-Qaida and Saddam.” – President Bush, 9/25/02

On 10/7/02 , Bush gave a speech entitled “President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat.” He said, “Tonight I want to take a few minutes to discuss a grave threat to peace, and America's determination to lead the world in confronting that threat. The threat comes from Iraq. America must not ignore the threat gathering against us.”

“There was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda.” – Vice President Cheney, 9/14/03

“We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein ... had either direction or control of 9/11.” – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 9/16/03

“There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties.” – President Bush, 9/17/03

"There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government. I am very confident that there was an established relationship there." - Vice President Cheney, 1/22/04

From World Net Daily, May 7, 2003 - Powell fleshed out the administration's claims that Hussein was harboring and aiding terror groups linked to al-Qaida. Powell referred to it as a "sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network."
Citing al-Qaida sources, Powell said Iraq's ties with al-Qaida date back to the early to mid-1990s when bin Laden was based in Sudan and reached an understanding with Saddam that al-Qaida would no longer support activities against Baghdad.
Powell said early al-Qaida ties were forged by secret high-level Iraqi intelligence service contacts, who have met with al-Qaida members, including bin Laden, repeatedly since the early 1990s.
"Our concern is not just about illicit weapons but the way they can be connected to terrorists. ... Iraq and terrorism goes back decades," said Powell.

Wow, Republicans have short memories, huh? Or is it just attention deficit disorder? Are you now going to claim that these things were never said? It's all public record. Pay attention.

Answer 2

BOTH! Saddam may have not been involved directly with 9-11, but he certainly had his fingers in certain groups, and even supported some forms of terrorism by proxy!

It is totally logical for us to overthrow him and his "GOV" to place us strategically in the area and work on neutralizing certain groups to further prevent terrorist attacks, both in the Mideast and abroad.

Iran supports terrorism, if only monetarily, or by proxy, and everyone knows that both Iran and Iraq have a mixed populous of each others countrymen, so why should anyone believe that Iraq was not a hotbed of terror support?

We would be stupid to walk into Iran and do what we did in Iraq, but being in Iraq is the next best thing, by placing us right in the middle of it all. If we are to fight terrorism, Iraq is/was the place to start, besides Afghanistan that is (The Taliban), who were/are responsible for 9-11.

Answer 3

Which one?

Why would anyone say we can only focus on one "terrorist" holed up in a cave somewhere?

Terrorist attacks on the U.S. are likely to come from any one of dozens (if not 100's) of pseudo-organizations. Shouldn't we be concerned with all of them?

Then again...I suppose if you're trying to make a political statement about the "wrongness" of deposing Saddam Hussein who, by the way killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of human beings with WMD's, invaded 2 neighboring countries, paid $25,000 rewards to families of suicide bombers, tried to arrange the murder of a US president and thumbed his nose at the UN and the rest of the world...

Yeah, I suppose you could pose the question.

Answer 4

Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, Bush has never made that claim. We are engaged in a GLOBAL War on Terror, not kill bin Laden, then the other bad guys. Believe it or not, we still have troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan is still looking as well.

Answer 5

So you think a tyrant and the mass murderer of his own people should just be left in power to continue to murder and opress?
You need to understand that 9/11 is not the only issue. Do you think the Iraqi people are better off with Hussein gone and a democratic government being put in place? That is hard to argue with except for the very narrow minded.
Maybe you should have lived under Saddam and you wouldn't be misspending your time Bush-bashing.

Answer 6

Neither - Insufficient evidence to convict anyone of those.

Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings? But not wanted on the list for the Tower Bombings? hmmm!

But another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found on the same FBI notice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700687.html

Answer 7

here's the plan:
1- tell the americans we will fight terrorisim
2- take the country's money to invest in my oil company, telling my people i will get those cowards down
3- if they ask me " why saddam" i'd say he has turned out to be Bin Laden's relative
4- take all the money and quit, saying I'm sorry fellas i couldnt do it, i'm a looser
5- fly out of the country to afghanistan where i've built my castle, and where my friends are waiting for me

Answer 8

bin Laden, by his own account. As to the president's plan, invade Iraq. Go figure.

Answer 9

Neither, one had nothing to do with it and the other is a scapegoat by his own consent.

Answer 10

Our president and the multi-million dollar "intelligence" agency that he has at his dispose are both geographically challenged.