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Skriven 2009-03-03 17:09:58 av JOHN FITZGERALD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: SADDAM AND TERRORISTS
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JF>  And I notice you haven't got it yet.  I don't think Obama is an oil
JF>  man, but if you're gonna run the 'war for oil' sing-along, then you
JF>  have to include Obama who plans on staying there for another year
JF>  and a half.  Was it 'war for oil', and Saddam was just some harmless
JF>  stooge?  Apparently you favor the two dimensional view, the one they
JF>  could more easily sell to all the naive grass-roots loud mouths.

DD>  I have never said that Hussein was a "harmless stooge". 
DD>  He was not. But, he was no direct threat to the US 
DD>  or its security. 

   Hussein wasn't about to send missiles or waves of jet fighters at the
USA, but that's about as far as it goes.  One of his modus operandi's 
was to outsource terrorist and other forms of attacks against US troops 
in the Sundan and Somilia.  And all the WMD/programs that Clinton's 
people reported on for eight years was still a major concern, esp if 
that stuff got into the wrong hands, which many, including then Chief 
UN Weapon's Inspector, David Kay, fear would have.  Saddam's willingness 
to support terrorists was clearly demonstrated when he promised to give 
money to the families of suicide bombers, and even though that 
concerned Hamas and Israel, it STILL demonstrated that he was willing 
to do business with terrorists.   And the fact that Al qaeda flocked 
into Iraq and fought with the Iraqi insurgents again demonstrates that 
Saddam's Iraq and terrorists altogether were perfectly willing to form
alliances to defeat a greater common enemy.  

   And again, I notice you have no words for Feinstein and her husband 
to whom she (MILCON) awarded major contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
so I trust you won't be making much partisan inspired noise about 
Cheney and Haliburton any longer.


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