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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (5041)	2/12/2003 12:54:22 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 7689

Nidal certainly did - I don't recall that he's linked to al Qaeda, however, and I don't think he was there officially (i.e., a welcome or flaunted guest). For that matter, Idi Amin is in Saudi Arabia... Saddam certainly has, in the past, launched wars against his neighbours. But this isn't terrorism, it's obvious war, and he's had half his country taken away and the rest is still bombed daily and kept poor and starving for his presumption. As for the meetings, I haven't heard even a vague hint that Saddam or official Iraqi apparatus have been aiding,, abetting, etc. I have read that some of these terrorists were hiding out in the bits where Saddam's writ no longer goes (e.g., Kurdish areas) - we can't really use this as a pretext. If you want to crush Iraq because you don't like it, say so. Don't lie and expect anyone else to swallow at best half-truths, and don't insult people - especially allies - who point it that things aren't actually just so... Seriously, what threat is Iraq? It's expected to last, what, 48 hours against the US+ in combat? This is not a capable enemy. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld appears to be actively trying to alienate world opinion. Would you call his behaviour towards Europe anything other than aggressive, arrogant, condescending or rude...?