U.N. inspectors ssaid they couldn't find anyting and asked for more time....
Sorry Kate.. that's not going to fly. UNMOVIC inspectors filed a 175 page report containing numerous unresolved issues that HAD BEEN UNRESOLVED SINCE BEFORE 1998 (when Saddam ceased his cooperation with UNSCOM), which continued to be unresolved just prior to Bush's decision to launch the invasion.
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And Kate.. While you're foolishly focused solely upon WMDs, you COMPLETELY IGNORE the fact that the cease-fire FORBADE any Iraqi government involvement with terrorism.
And this relationship was, despite the evidence that continues to reveal itself, is just something many analysts choose to intellectually reject, or at least discount.
We uncovered NUMEROUS Iraqi Intelligence documents, labeled TOP SECRET, showing Saddam's willing cooperation and involvement with Al Qai'da and groups affiliated with them, with goals of targeting Americans and our interests.
These contacts where shown to be going back so far as 1993, and it was reported that AQ #2, Ayman Zawahiri, was in Baghdad for a "bad-guy bash" of terrorist groups in 1998.
As for the French being "right", even think that France provided Iraq some 22% of its total imports, not to forget the billions of $$$$ Saddam owed France, just might have something to do with the manner in which they protected Saddam's regime?
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