Originally posted by The Black Ghost
Uh, yeh they were. They supported and defied US orders to hand over Bin Laden and the terrorists and actually THREATENED to fight us if we went into their country to take out AL-Queda so I dont know where you are coming from. Its not like the Taliban were such great people themselves...
Yes, the Taliban harboured Al Queda, but they had nothing to do with 9/11. You don't get what I'm saying do you?
" What the hell kind of logic is that? "it was probable that they had the chance to". Read that over and try and see how ridiculous that sounds. If you were going to attack a country based on a percieved threat, Iran or Korea would be who you would attack before Iraq. They possess a greater military threat than Iraq did. Iraq was NO threat to the US. They were not nuclear capable nor was there any ambition to start a conflict with a country that Sadam knew would kick his ass."
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
As i said they supported terrorists like the Taliban did before 9/11. They were asking to get their asses handed to them. And Saddam was crazy and hated us, what if, just before he was about to die, he cooked up a little gas bomb or two for major american cities? Just for a last laugh. Its been done before, more than once.
That is still not a logical enough reason to wage war witrh Iraq. Saddam posed NO threat to the US. It was stated by Rice and powell only months before. Even if they were nuclear capable they had no intercontental system with which to launch.
Iraq had absolutely no strategic advantage or intention of attacking the U.S.
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
Saddam was by no means a "stabilizing force" in the middle east. he was just as radical as any other extremist leader. He invaded Kuwait, evidence enough to show he had more he wanted than just power in Iraq. Saddam was ruled by his own power and money, and that is just as bad if not worse than being against fundamental muslim beleifs.
By stabilizing force, I mean to say that Saddam kept the balance of power away from the fundamentalistic islamic movement. His being there was advantagious to any state opposed to fundamental islamic ideas.
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
Evidence of terror groups in Iraq? Here are some links to follow. I will only post one for each for now but if u want you can go find some more yourself.AL-Queda:Al-Queada
PKK
--there are acutally a lot more than this but these are major ones.
Here's one for you:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/17/Bush.alqaeda/index.html
an excerpt:
In the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush had made stronger statements alleging cooperation between Iraq and al Qaeda. In a October 2002 speech, he said, "Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases."The initial report from the 9/11 commission, which held a public hearing Wednesday and Thursday, said Osama bin Laden "explored possible cooperation with Iraq during his time in Sudan, despite his opposition to (Saddam) Hussein's secular regime."
It says the contact was pushed by the Sudanese "to protect their own ties with Iraq." After bin Laden asked for space in Iraq for training camps, the report said, "Iraq apparently never responded."
It also said:"There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship."
"I always said that Saddam Hussein was a threat," Bush said. He was "a threat because he provided safe haven for a terrorist like (Abu Musab al-) Zarqawi, who is still killing innocents inside of Iraq."
Did you read that? Do you see the problem there?
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
Thats what I meant. And Canada doesnt really count. 🙂
Very mature retort. I guess the deaths of Canadian soldiers doesn't mean much, or the fact that it was them and SAS troops that saved thousands of U.S. troops' lives through their sniping and 'painting' of targets.
Your comment there only shows that not only do you not understand nor respect the efforts of other countries in this conflict, but that you also are an ignorant ass.
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
And an equal number could say otherwise. Why do we always go for the bad news over the good?
So are you denying that an american general admitted that Bush was seeking a war with Iraq? Your comment is unclear on the subject.
Originally posted by The Black Ghost
No duh. I already stated that was not the reason we attacked Iraq. Iraq harbored terrorists though so it is not beyond reason to think that those terrorists could have been in Iraq at one point.
Iran harbors far more terrorists than Iraq ever did. Palestine, Libya and Syria also harbored for more terrorsits (including Al Queda) than Iraq ever did. Your point is moot.
The reasons for attacking Iraq have changes from WMD's to their support of terrorism, to the liberation of the Iraqi people.
If this was about terrorism, there were far more important countries to attack, not to mention the mass withdrawal of american troops from Afghanistan (which is now a mess by the way) where known terrorists still operated.
Debating woth you seems to be about as pointless as debating with Deano.