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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (58092)	2/22/2005 2:40:51 AM
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Spin, spin, spin. Your "working ties" straw man was a clear misrepresentation cast out to imply that any claim regarding the removal of Saddam was NOT part of the GWOT; And/or it meant to imply Saddam had no "serious" ties to terrorists. Thus removing Saddam in the name of violations of UN Resolutions also was inappropriate (straw man set up & apparently knocked down). As far as I'm concerned, Saddam's more than decade long, eminently provable ties to Al Qaeda established a sufficient level of "working ties" to remove Saddam based solely on UN Resolution 687 (Saddam was not allowed to have anything to do with any terrorists PERIOD). That Saddam also had multiple "working ties" ties with other terrorist organizations, both internally & externally only weaken your argument further. Saddam's ties to Al Qaeda alone made his removal a critical part of the GWOT in the post 9/11 world. Since Saddam also spent more than a decade violating every major requirement of the Cease Fire Agreement (WMD's, WMD Programs, offensive weapons, ties to terrorists, crimes against humanity, etc.), your point in & of itself is moot. But you already knew that.