They're must be some mistake! Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, or 9/11. Before we came along and screwed everything up,the Hussein regime was a benevolent overlord.
2007-07-18 06:15:53 · 17 answers · asked by Richard P 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Al Qaeda was not welcome under Saddam. Our invading Iraq lured them there. They are in dozens of countries-- want to invade ALL of them? Bush won't even invade Pakistan, where they have safe haven in the lawless NW provinces.
2007-07-18 06:20:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
It's more like they attracted Al Qaeda to Iraq. Al Qaeda runs the terrorist equivalent of franchises - if you get some fellow crazy people together and prove competent enough to blow some of them up along with a sufficient number of innocents, Al Qaeda will give you a membership card and secret decoder ring and take credit for your efforts.
"Al Qaeda in Iraq" is drawing would-be anti-American terrorists from all over the Muslim world, though. Convenient, in a sense, if you want to fight anti-American terrorists without endangering American civilians... and don't care about Iraqi civilians, obviously.
2007-07-18 06:21:47 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This may be a good time for many of your responders to turn off the Comedy Channel and go to a news program.
AQI was formed in Iraq shortly after we invaded Aghanistan in 2001. Before 2003, Iraq was a safe-haven where al Qaeda figures such as Abu Musab al Zarqawi who were wounded in Afghanistan in the early fighting went to rest and recuperate. Saddam opened Iraq to al Qaeda for R&R, recruitment, and gave them land where they could recruit and train more terrorists to go back to Afghanistan and kill U.S. soldiers.
That and the fact that Saddam was shooting at our planes as they patrolled the no-fly zones, broke every treaty signed from the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War to 2003, was seeking to rearm and restart his nuclear weapons program (ended by an Israeli airstrike years before), and kicked out the U.N. inspectors every time they got close to discovering his chemical weapons stash, led to the invasion of Iraq.
2007-07-18 06:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they really want to find Al Qaeda, they need to look in Pakistan. Everybody knows that's where they are.
I'm not saying Hussein was a great guy, but he's been dead for quite a while now and I'm not noticing a big improvement over there. Are you? Our involvement in Iraq, and this is a FACT, has made it easier for Al Qaeda to recruit more terrorists.
2007-07-18 06:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
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This whole 9/11-Iraq connection is a myth fostered by Liberals who says the administration said '"Iraq was behind 9/11." "Aren't they dumb?'"
I think they got quotes by Cheney wrong and have run with it to whoever would listen to them:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/9/15/94839.shtml
2007-07-18 06:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by Philip McCrevice 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iraq is a horse of a distinctive shade so some might say. The ideology is one in each of limited advance. we can't exchange the minds of those human beings. they have the superb to proceed to exist and stay interior the small circumference of their logic. u . s . a . of america needs to guard protection and flow on. it particularly isn't our u . s . a . and not our democratic shape. it particularly is how those persons have existed for some years and why they have not stronger. The west can not exchange them yet supply them innovations to progression. This has been performed. they'd desire to start to hold close their u . s . a . and its regulations. they'd desire to start up development their economic gadget and does not be so aggravating suitable to the politics and faith in the event that they worked as demanding as an American does to proceed to exist. Iraqis visit paintings... get a existence... quit all the judging....
2016-10-21 22:24:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, thats funny, Hillary said that there was aide given, (past tense) to al qaeda in 2002.
Don't believe it? check out the link and read her and other Dems quotes
2007-07-18 06:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by jonn449 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Old Al capone wants people to beleive Iraq was the one that hit the towers, he is a complete old fool. They found one in Iraq , but that is only going to really hurt our troops, they have no armor, guns, no equipment to protect themselves, their like sitting ducks. I feel so sorry for our troops I love all of them, having a monster telling you to fight without supplies.
2007-07-18 06:24:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Al-Queda in Iraq was formed in 2003.
Some terrorism analysts say Bush has used inflated rhetoric to depict al-Qaeda in Iraq as part of the same group of extremists that attacked the United States on Sept. 11 -- noting that the group did not exist until AFTER the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
These analysts say Bush also has overlooked the contribution that U.S. actions have made to the growth of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has been described as kind of a franchise of the main al-Qaeda network headed by bin Laden.
2007-07-18 06:18:38 · answer #9 · answered by Truth 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
No one claims Hussien was a good guy. But you also cant claim that Iraq had any connection to 9/11 or that Al Queda was in the country prior to 2004
2007-07-18 06:19:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋