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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (184007)	3/3/2004 4:19:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide. This can't be right. Al Qaeda was never in Iraq, nor was any chemical weapons plant. After all, we have your daily cut-n-paste posts to prove it, no? <G> Remember we're talking about N. Iraq.....home of the Kurds. Saddam had very little influence over this region in the latter part of the 90s. They were semi autonomous. It was believed al Qaeda agents were crossing from Iran thru Iraq to Syria and then back. However, what Bush said was that Saddam was consorting with al Qaeda in Bagdad. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (184007)	3/3/2004 9:56:56 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

This can't be right. Al Qaeda was never in Iraq, nor was any chemical weapons plant. After all, we have your daily cut-n-paste posts to prove it, no? <G> So we attacked iraq who had no control over these bad guys, and the bad guys are running around raising hell killing folks...good job there george...and keep seeing genius in that mountain of extreme stupidity Tench...or another way of saying it, there so much horse shit around here that there has got to be a pony somewhere, right? Al The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council. ‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’ — Roger Cressey Terrorism expert “Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution. Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe. The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq. “People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.