I see, over and over again, (here at YA) Republicans making the de facto statement that Hussein was behind 9/11, or that he was somehow key to Bin Laden's efforts to attack the WTC.
Do you believe this, and if so, why?
2007-01-02 08:23:46 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
cvq3842, meet Timothy...above you. :) Oh, and then there's the guy who posted right after you.!
2007-01-02 08:31:50 · update #1
Courtesy of JC:
"Sept. 29 issue - According to the polls, more than two thirds of the American public believes that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. Last week on “Meet the Press,” Vice President **** Cheney lent weight to the alleged connection by bringing up anecdotes that appear to support it. Days after Cheney’s remarks, President George W. Bush appeared to back off, telling reporters his administration had “no evidence” that Saddam was involved in 9/11."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067794
2007-01-02 08:44:38 · update #2
Turbo, you might try reading the other answers given.
2007-01-02 08:46:18 · update #3
It's encouraging to see so many people here at least know the truth on this one crucial detail. It would have been nice if people were more willing to hold Bush accountable for encouraging the CIA to virtually manufacture this evidence, but I guess you can't expect people to be THAT aware if they aren't actually reading the books on this subject.
I'm also curious as to why in all of the 1000's of hours of news coverage I've seen and every newspaper article I've read I have never heard of, nor met anyone who has heard of anything like a terrorist camp in Iraq. I would expect that would be BIG BIG news and it would be covered widely in the media, wouldn't you?
Or was there a liberal media conspiracy to cover that up? I watch FOX news too, at least 3 hours a week and I never saw it there either. Weird.
Maybe they figured even the stupidest conservatives wouldn't believe a trailer park with a jungle gym next to it in a Bagdad suburb was a terrorist training camp.
2007-01-02 09:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saddam Hussein was not a player of any sorts in the 9/11 attacks.
2007-01-02 08:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where are you getting that the Republicans on YA feel that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11? We know he didn't, but we have heard reports that there were terrorist camps in Iraq. I'm not sure if those camps were set up by the Al Queda or some other terrorist group. In the long run we aren't just fighting the Al Queda terrorists, but ALL terrorist groups. Whether they had connections with Al Queda or not.
Edit: Lamplighter - JC Mcdougleh didn't say he believed that. Reread his answer, he's just pointing out why it happened and how scary it is. As for the person below CVQ he's just being silly as a lot of people are on YA and can't seem to answer a question without being a silly.
2007-01-02 08:33:53 · answer #3 · answered by Mikira 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Without coming accross like the conspiracy nut-bags I have found this and seems a little interesting:
http://www.citizensoldier.org/saddam911.html
Ryan- Have you read "Saddam's Secret" by General Sada, one of his top generals. He was imprisoned by Saddam after he would not follow through with an order to execute POWs in the prison he was overseeing.
It's pretty enlightning.
Oh yeah, there in Syria, the WMD's that is.
2007-01-02 08:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by jasonzbtzl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO! However remember when President Bush first tried to sell the American people on the Iraq war he said that it was a war on terrorism therefore people believe everything the honorable President says therefore Saddam must be responible for 9/11!!
Saddam might have given Ben Ladin monies for his cells however most of the middle east would have been more then happy to support Ben Ladin's cells.
The sad thing is because of President Bush's approach with the American people on the war in Iraq it has some really left wingers to believe that the Bush Adminstration is responible for the attack on 9/11.
2007-01-02 08:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by wondermom 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It wasn't 9/11 that got Saddam into a war, it was the War on Terror. Supposedly Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, like Anthrax or dirty bombs or something that he may have been distributing to warlords or terrorist groups or something (He, like Al-Qaeda, is a Sunni facist). He didn't have any, but some people thought that he was thinking of developing a Nuclear program.
2007-01-02 08:36:47 · answer #6 · answered by kass9191 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There has not been 1 ounce of proof that Saddam is to blame at all for 9/11 --- Im sure even Bush would admitt that. It was completely Osama ... which raises a more important question of Why did we go after Saddam before Osama ? and why is Osama walking free after 9/11 but Saddam is dead for things he did in the 90's!!!
2007-01-02 08:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by NA2006 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
He had absolutely nothing to do with it other than to maybe watch it on tv and cheer.
For one thing, he had nothing to do with al Qaida. He didn't even trust them or their leader bin Laden. As he told Mike Wallace in a "60 Minutes" interview back when he was our friend, he didn't even want them in his country - he did not trust them at all.
And, as we all know - well, except for the Republicans - going into Iraq was a vendetta on Dubya's part to remove Hussein because Saddam had put out a contract on Daddy during the Gulf War. He just used 9/11 as an excuse.
2007-01-02 08:34:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Of course not. I don't believe this because the bi-partisan 9/11 commission showed quite clearly that there was no evidence whatsoever that Saddam was involved. Other reports have proved that Saddam didn't have any WMD, the supposed reason for our invasion, although said reason seems to change monthly.
2007-01-02 08:26:32 · answer #9 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I know you are looking for the other side of this... but I had to chime in. It is remarkable the depth of misunderstanding that has been propagated by the right.. as late as July/06 50% of the country still believed that Saddam was involved. It really is scary actually... what is even more off the wall is that it becomes an attack device... a base for some argument. Truly stranger than fiction..
just a link to the person above me that said show me a link... here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067794
just an update ..
from somefatguy.
"Invading Iraq was not about going after the people who committed 9/11, but it is now! The same groups of terrorists fighting are the ones fighting us in Iraq now."
hows that for a quick fact morph,...?
2007-01-02 08:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by JC McDooglehowzer 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋