Hi KLP; Re the headline: "Iraq Providing Shelter, Chemical Weapons Help to Al Qaeda"
If Al Qaeda has all this help from Iraq, and Iraq has all these chemical weapons and WMDs, then where are the attacks by terrorists using WMDs? The WTC attackers used knives.
For that matter, if the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, and Afghanistan was filled to the gills with RPGs and anti-aircraft weapons, and the Taliban gave support to Al Qaeda, then where are the incidents of attacks on aircraft using stuff like Stinger missiles?
This whole thing smells funny. Back when it was not clear that Iraq was uninvolved with the WTC attack, I was in favor of bringing down Iraq as well as Afghanistan. And with the approval of the whole world, it would have been militarily and diplomatically easy. I stated this on SI:
Bilow, September 15, 2001
Hi Rich1; If we go to Afghanistan or Iraq, we will kick their butts. These countries are run by a few people who have deluded themselves into thinking that they can resist the military might of the West. They were deluded when they tried this with Saddam's elite Republican Guard tank force (which had conquered the vast forces of Iran) in the Gulf War, and now they believe that if they fight us in the mountains and towns they'll reverse the verdict. Due to advances in weapons technology that we have and they don't they will again be destroyed at relatively low casualty rates for ourselves. (But likely worse than the ~300 we lost in the Gulf War.)
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These are deluded fanatics we are up against. They are not the polished war machine of the highly efficient 3rd Reich. They are not the 1.5 billion highly industrialized Communists, walking in lockstep unison. All the neighboring countries want to help us. They can't even make airplanes. Afghanistan doesn't even have TV. This is not at all a "fair" fight. Don't worry about it. #reply-16357532
Since then it has become clear that Iraq had less to do with the attack on the WTC than Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Germany did, and so our justification for attacking them melted away, as did my support for it. But now I'm beginning to question exactly how much support the Taliban gave Al Qaeda. It seems that logic would suggest that the Taliban did not give Al Qaeda full support. This is not to say that we were unjustified in destroying the Taliban, but only to note that the Taliban probably thought that they could keep Al Qaeda under control, and thereby escape the full wrath of the outside world. In any case, the fact is that these Islamic Terrorists are sadly under supplied with terror weapons.
-- Carl |
