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[Pennsylvania Jim]

Al Quaeda hated Hussein, and he hated them. Radical islam was kept under control by Hussein, and terrorist activity was, I suspect, a fast way to get executed. There is little or no evidence of support of islamic terrorism by Hussein. Not that he was a good guy, but truth is truth.

The charges of Iraqi support of international terrorism are mostly hot rhetoric with no substance. The only cridible one that I know of is the payment to surviving families of terrorists, which had nothing to do with 9/11 or any other attack on the US.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

Originally posted by church mouse guy:
Don't you read the news either? Do you have a search engine? Yes, of course. Search out the Butler Commission and read the report. And search out something like Powell Iraq terror or cia iraq terror. I would oblige but I have to leave for work shortly.

When claims are made you should not make your readers do the research. The polite thing to do is to back up your claims with links.

 

[church mouse guy]

No one should have to link what should be common knowledge from the news. I will link a newspaper report on the Butler Commission. It should be obvious that Iraq is a hotbed of terrorism--we did not go to war for light reasons as Kerry claims.

web page--Please click here for report on Iraq buying yellow-cake

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

Thank you for the link - it allows us to read more than just the posters take.

Here is a quote from the article linked:

The British commission is as sharply critical of many of the MI6 spymasters' flawed conclusions as US investigators have been of the CIA's. But there is one striking departure: The British commission, chaired by Lord Butler, suggests that there is more substance to the story of Iraqi efforts to buy uranium from Africa than has hitherto been suggested. The British report says evidence "was not conclusive that Iraq actually purchased, as opposed to having sought, uranium." But it documents visits by Iraqi officials to the uranium-exporting nation of Niger, and says that British intelligence from several sources indicating that the purpose was to acquire uranium "was credible."

No evidence that there ever was any uranium, but that Iraq may have tried to purchase some.

Big difference between having and trying to buy.

 

[Pennsylvania Jim]

From CMG's link:

... In early 1999, the report states, Iraqi officials visited a number of African countries, including Niger, where uranium ore accounted for three-quarters of exports. British intelligence detected these visits and suspected Iraq wanted to buy uranium to restart its nuclear program. More intelligence suggested Iraq had sought uranium ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that by 2002 an agreement for a sale had been reached. Also in 2002, the British received further intelligence from additional sources that the Niger visit was to negotiate the purchase of uranium ore, although analysts disagreed on whether a sale had been agreed and uranium shipped.

According to the Butler commission, it was not until early 2003 that the British government became aware of documents alleging the Iraqi purchase of uranium from Niger. These were passed to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which determined the papers were forgeries. But the documents were not available to the British government at the time it made its assessment, and so did not influence that conclusion. ...

So, British agents suspect that the visit was to seek uranium ore, and the documents claiming that they bought any were forgeries.

Question: Who made the forgeries, and why did they find it necessary?

 

[church mouse guy]

The American left is trying to say that Iraq was not seeking yellow-cake. Both the US government and the British government say that Iraq was. The purpose of the attempted purchase was to begin to build a bomb, as you know. The purchase was foiled by British and American intelligence. Read the entire report.

You asked me to link that there is cooperation between Iraq and all other terrorist agencies. You do not ask PJ to link that there was no cooperation between Iraq and all other terrorist agencies. Here again we run into the wall of CP disinformation as well as trying to shift the burden of proof. The CP should hope that a slum-dwelling Republican like me never gets the ear of a high-ranking official because I would have both Kerry and cheapskate lawyer Peroutka investigated for aiding and abetting the enemy during time of war. I would expose both of them to the troops publically and say do not worry about these people; we had copperheads during the Civil War, too.

 

[church mouse guy]

Here is one link to refute PJ's unsubstantiated claim. Note how old this story is:

web page--Please click here

 

[Pennsylvania Jim]

Inaccurate post...deleted.

 

[Pennsylvania Jim]

Originally posted by church mouse guy:

You asked me to link that there is cooperation between Iraq and all other terrorist agencies. You do not ask PJ to link that there was no cooperation between Iraq and all other terrorist agencies.

My claim was that there was no evidence.

Here is a link to nothing: LINK