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- KuzII0
i gotta go home now, but just say this -
I too fell for it. I was also convinced Iraq had WMDs. But we have learnt since of the massive scale of political pressure that was applied to Intelligent services to exagerate the threat. Second of all, we saw at the UN the pitiful evidence that Colin Powell presented, that convinced no one there. If the intelligence services was so convinved - why was Colin Powell's speech so lamentably unconvinceable?
Also Ansar al-Islam is certainly not an Al-Qaeda affiliated group, as such (any more than Hamas is one). It was formed in 2001 as a Kurdish islamist group, indiginous to Iraq to fight the PUK. If Saddam did give them support, it was only because they were fighting his enemmies - the PUK. They certainly were not involved in the Al Qaeda style global jihad against the US on US territory. Thats the lie Bush was talking about - that Saddam was intentionally sponsoring terrorists to attack US soil. Also if Zarqawi was allowed into Iraq, this was well after 9/11, and had more to do with Saddam's realisation that the US was hell bent on war against his country that Iraq's allegiance to Jihadism. Iraq didn't used to be a hotbed of Jihadism, but after the US invasion, it has now become one. Well done on that.
Also, incredulity is a pretty lame argument. You said Iraq was like Rwanda and Darfur, UN resolutions, and no-fly zones had maintained for over a decade that this was not the case.
And again, stop putting words into my mouth. I highly commend all those Iraqis who have joined in the voting process, and sincerely hope that Iraq emerges as a free, democratic, prosperous and SECULAR state. I wont hold my breath tho.
You are really clutching at straws and your relentless disceptation is getting on my tits. Just put me on jihad-watch already and be done with it :).
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