
Originally Posted by
AstroBlue
Once again you fall prey to your puny, inferior, stupid, American logic. How I laugh at thee.... Mwhahahahahahahaha.
My point was:
Saying that "the Ba'ath talked to Al-Qaida in 1994, therefore they are linked" would be like saying "OMG TEH RUMSFIELD TALKED TO SODOM WHOSSANE? IN 1983!!1 OH NOES!1! US = EYE-RACK!111one".
Our ties with Saddam are public record as well as when they ended. No secret there and we have to live with those decisions. In the case of Al-Qaida, we don't know what came of it. Disregarding them (are you?) is stupid. Evidence of Al-Qaida ties is just that and is given as a refutation to, "They hated each other and so Iraq would never ever have ties to Al-Qaida whatsoever..." Nothing puny, inferior, or stupid about it unless I'd have to be an Aussie lad to understand. Also, Laden's return to Afghanistan after being expelled from Sudan was later in '96 early '97 so further contacts there aren't that far off. But again, there's a difference between NO TIES and TIES which was what I was addressing before you decided to, I guess, do a tit for tat on ties.
An aside, the 9/11 Commision also found that the alleged meeting between Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer to not be credible. So they maintained the position of there being no credible evidence of Iraqi/Al-Qaida 9/11 involvement as Bush had stated.
"Don't be a pansy." - James
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