How many terrorists were there in Iraq before we invaded?

Question

Iraq is part of the war on terror, correct?

Therefore it follows that Iraq must have had terrorist organizations and terrorists for us to invade.

Can anyone name an incident where a terrorist from Iraq or a terrorist group based in Iraq attacked America or any American allies before we invaded Iraq?

Simple question.

ATTENTION:

IRAQI terrorists and IRAQI terror organizations guys. Iraqi's had nothing to do with the USS Cole or any other terrorist attack against us. Feel free to provide any links you have that can prove otherwise.

1) We went to Iraq because they had WMD.

2) They had no WMD, so it magically became a mission to free Iraqis from Saddam. We did that.

3) Now that the country has blown up in our face, it's a part of the "war on terror".

Does this sound to you like we had a clear plan and followed through with it? LOL Come on no one is this stupid. I refuse to accept that you don't see the truth. I really do.

Answer 1

I think there are more terrorists there now than before we invaded. Kind of defeats the whole "war on terror" "purpose" doesn't it?

Answer 2

Bush had (bad) intelligence that Saddam had WMD and believed that he would turn it over to terrorist organizations for use against us... The entire world believed he had WMD... And he PROBABLY did. I suspect he found a way to move it, destroy it, bury it, send it Syria, whatever... during the runup to the war. He had a couple months head start on us to get that stuff done.

It was a masterful deception on Saddam's part. Made us really look like we invaded for nothing. Who knows... maybe we did. I don't think ANYBODY on this forum has even 10% of the information we need to make an accurate assessment of what really happened. Not that this ignorance seems to matter to the Bush haters and the chicken-hawk neocons. They'll each keep offering up their spew.

Answer 3

Look, President Bush was given false information - or at least severely outdated material. It's pretty well known that all the WMDs that were there got carted off to Syria and/or Iran just prior to Gulf War II. Remember GW One? Remember the hundreds of Iraqi fighter jets that parked themselves just across the Iran/Iraq border? Same thing - Hussein moved everything so that he could have it at a later date. He's arrogant - or was - and it cost him. Now the WMDs are in two even more dangerous nations that threaten Israel as well as the West.

This was not a war about WMDs completely - it was a war against people that spread terror. You ask any Kurdish family and they'll tell you who the real terrorist is - Saddam Hussein - the man that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of them. You want to talk terrorists? There's your terrorists - the worst kind! Remember the Oklahoma City bombings? That was a terrorist - born and raised in the USA and killed hundreds of his own people. It's no different.

This was NOT, however a war for oil. If it was - explain how oil prices shot up to almost $80 a barrel and how our gasoline went from $1.50 a gallon to almost $3.50 if this was all about getting more oil for the US?

Don't let these secular progressive nutcases feed you a load of garbage - especially the CNNs and other media outlets. Notice today how CNN is declaring Hussein "an evil tyrant" and yet for years now they've been the front-runners in pulling out of Iraq and how that battle in the war on terror was a bad thing. Can you say ... hypocrite?

You wanted a simple answer based on your simple question - well there is no simple answer. Yes, Hussein and Iraq were part of the global war on terror. Any nation that sells or wishes to sell arms to people that wish to kill others in the name of religion is just that - a terrorist state. It was widely proven that Hussein did have Al-Qaeda members inside his borders, as does Syria and Iran. Al-Qaeda is a Sunni-based terror group, of which Hussein and his sons were also Sunni. Yet it's funny how now the Shiites in Iran and Syria are backing the Sunni-based Al-Qaeda when the means suits them.

This is not like your father's war in Vietnam - nor your grandfather's World War II. This is a far different war - where there is no one flag that flies over the capital of a terrorist nation looking for world domination. There are several nations involved - several factions - and numerous players spread all over the globe. But one cause unites them all - to see an end to Christians, Jews and anyone else that is not Muslim, including their own Muslim brothers and sisters that do not believe as they do and speak out against them. These are radicals - and they are many.

You need to get the facts straight - and stop listening to the SP media and reading SP-based blogsites for a living. If you want real education, then you need to read from people like Glenn Beck, John Loftus, Mary Matalin, Dr. James Dobson and many others who understand the truth and who are highly involved in seeking out the truth.

And you need to watch the movie, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West" to learn the truth - to see the truth - and to hear the truth! A wise man once said, "the truth shall set you free" - well there's the truth, my friend!

Answer 4

Your question pose a red herring, that Iraq had not directly committed provable acts of terror against U. S. interests was not why we invaded Iraq. We invaded Iraq for three reasons, and you should remember them all. First Saddam did not live up to his terms of surrender in Gulf War one, and second he made the world think he had WMDs. He kicked out the inspectors that his terms of surrender dictated he allow in his country to insure he had dropped his weapons program, he was given plenty of time to conform to his agreement while the Coalitions built up its forces to comply with the U. N. Mandates but he chose to believe that the U. S. was bluffing. Lastly was the possibility that Saddam would provide WMD to terrorists, even nuclear, if he was allowed to keep his weapon program.

It was within his power to call off the impending attack at anytime but chose to go on pretending that he would hit any attacking force with WMD. Remember all those troops wiring containment suits in that temperature? Why do you think they did that? To enforce as assumed Bush’s lie about WMD? If Bush was lying about it why did he just not plant some WMD, surely he had the ability to do that.

While it is not provable that Saddam had anything directly to do with the USS Cole, the Embassies bombings, or the World trade Building it is provable that he had Terror Training Camps directed by his military units. One link is: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/550kmbzd.asp
And if you Google “Terror training camps in Iraqi” you will be deliver many more links (ten pages) that attest to this fact.

If you can show me any thing about Bush lying, other then gratuitous assertions, I will be glad to examine your proof. However, I fear that you have closed your mind to anything other then the truth as you see it, and your assertion that anyone who disagrees with you is stupid only point to your intolerance to any opinion but your own.

Answer 5

While there were no doubt were organizations in IRAQ before we attached the last thing they could do was operate out of there.

Saddam had tight control on everything in IRAQ...including any terrorist organizations. If he would have let them operate out of his country it would have been, in part, the same as sharing control of his country. That he would never allow.

Only freedom to operate brings out these organizations. If the IRAQ government does not stop it now it too will be a base for them. Why do you think President Bush does not want to pull out?

Answer 6

There were none of any significance. Actually there were more in Europe at the time thana before we invaded Iraq. We didn't invade Germany, even though a number of the 9-11 terrorists were living there before the attacks.

Answer 7

Technically there were NO terrorists in Iraq before the invasion. Just Iraqis.

Answer 8

There weren't any. The leader of Al Queda, Bin Ladin who orchestrated the attacks against us, was in Afghanistan not Iraq. We turned our backs on him all of a sudden and focused on Iraq that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

Answer 9

There were probably no more terrorists living in Iraq at the time of the invasion, then there were living in the United States. Did we all forget about the ones that were living in the U.S. and flew planes into the towers???

Answer 10

Besides Saddam?
Likely some Iranians supporting uprisings here and there.
Some Kurds from Turkey in the north. Local troublemakers.