Posted by BTS
This is sorta interesting to me:
What is your take on it?
Mural Found in Iraq
In the circle it says, "Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq."
Along the bottom it says, "May God preserve Iraq and Saddam."
Not a lot, depends who drew it and means absolutely nothing. If you imply it was drawn by iraqui supporters of Saddam then it is hardly surprising they will now make a connection.
Don't misunderstand, saddam was a problem but invading was not the way to deal with him.
I have no objection to a war on terrorists but you need to target carefully and not provoke the entire region by destroying everything in sight. Al Queda were a small group and not representative of most muslims it's a war for intelligence services and special forces not the big battalions. All they do is add fuel to the fire, after 911 the US came roaring down off the moral high ground and seems to have forgotten the way back.
What's your take on this?
From the 911 commission report
Responding to a presidential tasking, Clarke’s office sent a memo to Rice on September 18, titled “Survey of Intelligence Information on Any Iraq Involvement in the September 11 Attacks.†Rice’s chief staffer on Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, concurred in its conclusion that only some anecdotal evidence
linked Iraq to al Qaeda.The memo found no “compelling caseâ€that Iraq had either planned or perpetrated the attacks. It passed along a few foreign intelligence reports, including the Czech report alleging an April 2001 Prague meeting between Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7) and a Polish report that personnel at the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad were told before September 11 to go on the streets to gauge crowd reaction to an unspecified event.Arguing that the case for links between Iraq and al Qaeda was weak, the memo pointed out that Bin Ladin resented the secularism of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Finally, the memo said, there was no confirmed reporting on Saddam cooperating with Bin Ladin on unconventional
weapons.62 On the afternoon of 9/11, according to contemporaneous notes, Secretary Rumsfeld instructed General Myers to obtain quickly as much information as
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/
I sometimes wonder if anyone in america ever read this report and ask the obvious question of why invade Iraq?
from Robin Cook's resignation speech
Ironically, it is only because Iraq's military forces are so weak that we can even contemplate its invasion. Some advocates of conflict claim that Saddam's forces are so weak, so demoralised and so badly equipped that the war will be over in a few days.
We cannot base our military strategy on the assumption that Saddam is weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a threat.
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term - namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.
It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories.
Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create?
Why is it necessary to resort to war this week, while Saddam's ambition to complete his weapons programme is blocked by the presence of UN inspectors?
Blair is a liar and is damaging british democracy and possibly destroying the Labour party, just as Maggie destroyed the Tories, as the grass roots support drops away-maybe he didn't go to Robin Cooks funeral because he was ashamed, assuming he knows what shame is.
Don't mind you using the article as a bye line, or whatever you call it, at the end of your posts but I must admit it bugs the life out of me.
Nah!! not enough you know whats to do what is necessary to save our country.