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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (192038)7/19/2006 5:40:58 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Bush Sr. made a mistake in ending the war with Saddam in power. I have my theories about why he did but I won't go into it as its not relevant now.

Bush Sr. did not remove Saddam from power -- do you know why?
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Our first priority had to be terrorism.

If you really think so, then why do you think the warnings received below from Russia should have been disregarded?

"I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001 and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian Special Services and Russian Intelligence several times received information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders at U.S. military and civilian locations."
Vladimir Putin

And why do you think we should have ignored the murder of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in 2002 by assassins sent by Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who once ran an al Qaida affiliated terror camp near Herat, Afghanistan? One of the captured assassins confessed on Jordanian television, that Zarqawi had sent them orders and wired funds from Baghdad. U.S. intelligence hadn't heard of Zarqawi until they intercepted his congratulatory telephone call from Baghdad to the assassins in Amman.
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