"Saddam is NOT connected to Al Quaida I don't care what you say."
Of course he's not....he's in prison, on trial, and soon to be put to death thanks to the US Armed Forces. He WAS connected.
"Iraq was not harboring terrorists but it is now that we invaded."
Again, ignoring the facts. Instead of "not caring what people say" you should open your mind and read the facts. If you hate Bush that's fine! But, spare me a boilerplate liberal line like "Iraq was not harboring terrorists"...that's just absurd.
----Abdul Rahman Yasin, who was indicted for mixing the chemicals for the bomb used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six New Yorkers and injured over 1,000. Yasin fled to Baghdad after the attack, where he was given sanctuary and lived for years afterward.
----Khala Khadar al-Salahat, a top Palestinian deputy to Abu Nidal, who reportedly furnished Libyan agents with the Semtex explosive used to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. The attack killed all 259 passengers, including 189 Americans. Al-Salahat was in Baghdad last April and was taken into custody by U.S. Marines.
----Abu Nidal, whose terror organization is credited with dozens of attacks that killed over 400 people, including 10 Americans, and wounding 788 more. Nidal lived in Baghdad from 1999 till August 2002, when he was found shot to death in his state-supplied home.
----Abu Abbas, who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, during which wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer was pushed over the side to his death. U.S. troops captured Abbas in Baghdad on April 14, 2003. He died in U.S. custody last week.
----Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who ran an Ansar al-Islam terrorist training camp in northern Iraq and reportedly arranged the October 2002 assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan. Al Zarqawi is still at large.
----Ramzi Yousef, who entered the U.S. on an Iraqi passport and was the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as Operation Bojinka, a foiled plot to explode 12 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Bojinka was later adopted by Yousef's cousin Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the blueprint for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Arrested in Pakistan in 1995, Yousef is currently serving a triple life sentence in Colorado's Supermax federal lockup.
----Mahmoud Besharat, the Palestinian businessman who traveled to Baghdad in March 2002 to collect funding from Saddam for the Palestinian Intifada. Besharat and others disbursed the funds in payments of $10,000 to $25,000 to West Bank families of terrorists who died trying to kill Israelis.
After Saddam announced his Intifada reward plan, 28 Palestinian homicide bombers killed 211 Israelis in attacks that also killed 12 Americans. A total of 1,209 people were injured.
For more details on Saddam Hussein's sponsorship of the terrorist networks that killed hundreds of innocent U.S. citizens, go to: http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/murdocksaddamarticle.pdf
I would encourage everyone to read parts of the independant translations of the recently de-classified "
Saddam Dossier"....for those that really want to know the truth. There are thousands of pages in these IRAQI documents that clearly establish his links to terrorism. This isn't George Bush talking. This isn't FOX news talking. This is SADDAM's posse's own words!!! The "Saddam Dossier" is undisputable evidence of his links to terrorism. You won't hear Teddy, Hillary or CNN talking much about it...because they've already made up their mind and don't care what anyone says...even if it is in the Iraqi terrorist's own words.
Documenting Saddam's Link to Terror
June 11, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199053,00.html
Terror Links to Saddam's Inner Circle
June 12, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199052,00.html
Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection
June 16, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199757,00.html
Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection
June 23, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200820,00.html
Was Saddam Regime a Broker for Terror Alliances?
June 26, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200908,00.html
Was Saddam Regime a Broker for Terror Alliances?
July 05, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202271,00.html
Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan
July 06, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202277,00.html
"I went to a seminar held by Kucinich on the damn thing. I will leave you all the facts after I gather them."
KUCINICH???
OK...OK...Ok.....so AMac took a class and you listened to the great Dennis Kucinich. I'm citing the friggin SS Trustees Report! They are the ones in charge of keeping SS fully funded. If it was going to be "non-existant in 2010" as AMac proclaimed don't you think they'd be screaming from the roof tops? The trustees aren't going to sugarcoat the situation...they are going to paint the most accurate analysis they can. If they are going to exaggerate one way or the other they would say the situation is worse than it is. So with all do respect, I don't need to see AMac's class notes or Kucinich's ramblings...I've read what the SS trustees have to say. They know far more than AMac's teacher or Denny.
No one is disputing SS has issues, but let's not throw out these baseless claims that can't be supported by the real facts.