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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GST who wrote (461812)	9/19/2003 2:29:02 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We don't need a UN flag to act in our own national security interests....

To: GST who wrote (461812)	9/19/2003 2:42:50 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The first full week of the third year in the war against Jihadistan has proved full of promise, progress and setbacks. The campaign to build an Iraqi republic -- in the heart of the Middle East --continues to progress with measured success, despite much Leftmedia hand-wringing and Leftpolitico Monday-morning quarterbacking. There are additional intelligence reports this week supporting previous evidence The Federalist reported in November of '02 that Iraq shipped some of its biological and nuclear WMD stores to Syria and the Bekaa Valley. This comes on top of last week's assessment from Israel's Mossad that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad allowed Saddam's primitive nukes (possibly with cores for three)to transit through Syria to a protected site in Lebanon's heavily fortified Bekaa Valley. Former Iraqi Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, defense minister under Saddam's Ba'athist regime, surrendered yesterday to Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division. After weeks of negotiations, Ahmad turned himself in on the condition that his name be removed from the U.S. military's "55 most-wanted" list, meaning he will not be subject to indefinite confinement and will possibly be shielded from prosecution. The move to accept the former minister's surrender on these terms is hoped to quell some of the guerilla violence that continues to threaten U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq. For the record, on Wednesday President George Bush reiterated the administration's position that Saddam Hussein is not known to have directly conspired with al-Qa'ida in the commission of the September 11 terrorist attacks, though the former Iraqi regime's ties with the terrorist group were strong: "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with...September 11," said President Bush, adding, "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al-Qa'ida ties." National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice remarked that the administration has "never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control of 9/11." Dr. Rice went on to say, "What we have said is that [Saddam] supported terrorists, helped to train them, but most importantly that this is someone who, with his animus toward the United States, with his penchant for and capability to gain weapons of mass destruction, and his obvious willingness to use them, was a threat in this region that we were not prepared to tolerate." While Saddam did not leave a paper trail sufficient to suggest he personally vetted al-Qa'ida's 9/11 attack on our countrymen,here is just a bit of what we do know about Saddam's coddling of al-Qa'ida terrorists. Under Saddam's reign of terror, Iraq provided chemical and biological weapons training for al-Qa'ida terrorists and in 2002 provided medical care for senior al-Qa'ida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and safe haven for two dozen al-Qa'ida terrorists travelling with him. Facilities in northern Iraq run by Zarqawi and terrorist network Ansar al-Islam included al-Qa'ida poisons/toxins laboratories and planning centers for attacks against France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia. ------excerpt from The Federalist