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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (19424)	10/26/2004 5:12:05 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You quote the 9/11 Commission to support your point... but when I quote from the same 9/11 Commission press conference to refute that point, you suggest I'm being unreasonable. Let's look at what we know: While Wm Cohen continues to defend the decision to bomb the Sudan factory, the govt admits that the owner of the plant had no terror connections and Osama was not involved. The CIA wasn't really sure the about the soil samples. Reporters visiting the plant afterwards found no evidence of nerve gas production. And if you bomb a chemical weapons plant isn't there some danger you would release toxic chemicals into the air and kill half the population of Khartum? The plant's owner is suing in U.S. Courts for damages. All in all, something doesn't add up. Now, getting back to Iraq. Osama was a Islamic religious wacko. Saddam was on the other end of Islam - a secular Muslim who had good relations with us infidels: With regard to Christians and churches, there's been peace with regard to his politics. There was no religious persecution; there was tolerance. The regime of Saddam Hussein has friendly relations with church leaders. But in general there are no problems. Saddam has specially favored the Christians with his generous initiatives towards churches. beliefnet.com There are many, many other examples why a Saddam/Osama partnership would make little sense, but suffice to say that the mistake we westerners make is to assume that all Muslims are alike - which is absurd. It's taht mentality that leads us to make connections where none exist. Furthermore, Colin Powell stated 52 times in his presentation to the United Nations that the United States had PROOF Saddam continued to conceal WMD. However, after nearly two years of searching we have not found a single WMD. The intelligence was wrong, badly wrong. There were no WMD. So now, a year and a half after the fact, Bush states the invasion was justified because Saddam had the INTENT. Sorry, but that's not what Bush and Powell said in the spring of 2003. The bottom line is that the intelligence in 2003 was wrong about Iraqi WMD. Since they got THAT wrong, how does a reasonable person believe everything else, including Saddam/Osama links are correct? How many 9/11's will it take before you quit your partisan BS & get serious about the global WOT? What terrifies me was the simplicity of 9/11. No elaborate WMD, no state involvement... just 19 ordinary guys with razor blades killed 2,500 people in two hours. While America attacks a straw man in the form of Saddam, going nuts about the possibility of dirty bombs, biological weapons and non-existant WMD, Osama sits in a cave, peacefully planning his next attack, probably in a way that will be as unique, simple, destructive and unexpected as the 9/11 attacks. And we're going to miss the warning signs just as we did before 9/11. Why? Because our mindset is geared towards the complex, searching for links, searching for complex weapons, searching for that which is not there while totally missing the obvious.