"This does not prove, however, that Iraq and al-Qaida never cooperated. The polls, in fact, may reflect a kind of commonsense logic: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida share a pathological hatred of the United States, so it’s entirely possible that they collaborated, even if we don’t know how."
This is really a pathetic excuse for killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians who definitely did not collaborate with Al Qaida, don't you think?
Saddam actually felt threatened by Osama's group, from what I've read. He saw his government as legitimate, and feared terrorism. And our government tried endlessly to come up with evidence of cooperation, and failed. The fact is that the Bushies knew most Americans were extremely gullible, to say the least, and deliberately lied to them until almost everyone believed something that did not occur. |
