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Originally Posted by chosenbyone
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11...plain and simple. The night of 9/11, Rumsfield and the other neocons immediately tried to connect the two in order to overthrow Saddam.
Leading up to the war, the Bush Administration made claims that Iraq was helping Al Queda and was sponsoring terrorism...oh, yeah, and they warned of an attack from Iraq using WMD. Remember, the mushroom cloud statement that Bush and Rice stated in order to create more fear in the American public.
A year and a half after the invasion of Iraq, Bush, Cheney and others backed off from the connection between Iraq and 9/11. In fact, they did a 180 and stated that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but Saddam was a tyrant and he was a brutal dictator and he had to be removed for the sake of his people.
If we would have kept our focus in Afghanistan were we have lost ground in rooting out the Taliban in recent months we would have accomplished our objectives in our war on terrorism. When Bush stated a few years ago that he wasn't really that concerned with Osama Bin Laden and the lack of public outrage lead me to believe that we would never win this "war".
Funny how this administration would send a diplomatic envoy to meet with the leader of Sudan who allowed the people of Darfur to be slaughtered by the millions yet felt it necessary to intervene in Iraq where under Saddam the Iraq Christians had more freedom than in Sudan (the majority of those that were slain in Darfur were Christians killed by the muslims).
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Bush and Cheney have just tried to stay functional with the onslaught of the pacifiers and defeatist from every corner being overwhelming. I don't know how our government could be functional with all the division and derision from every corner, absolute chaos. Bush has done well to keep the radicals at bay in this country, and I give him high marks for doing so.
The radicals are so pervasive in the Middle East that solid base from which to attack them was very important. Saddam's cup was full to overflowing and God directed his downfall, I would be very careful about condemning what God has bought to pass to remove Saddam and his murderous sons that had persecuted the Iraq people for decades. Bush may not have even known why Iraq was his focus. The bigger picture is the US has been at work taking out the leadership of radicals from our bases in Iraq, there is much more going on than meets the eye. Sudan's day is coming, God will not allow evil men to persist indefinitely. He raises up leaders and He brings down leaders His purpose to accomplish, and that includes Bush and the Republicans if necessary.
Oh, btw, why did Saddam have a jetliner being used for training, he was solidly involved and would have funded and helped in anyway possible to hurt the US. Paying for suicide bombers lives for attacking civilians in Israel, and generally promoting radicalism, we should not be so generous with him, he does not deserve to be let off the hook.