Re: RC: yay
Holminator...
"Iraqi support for terrorism under Saddam Hussein was directed toward Israel. The Government of Iraq viewed that activity as a war of liberation, not terrorism (its view not mine). A-Qa'ida never had an alliance with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. If Iraqi intelligence services had contact with member of al-Qa'ida that would be normal since it is the job of all intelligence services to develop contacts that will betray either their country or group and provide intelligence to said intelligence service. Such an "association" does not mean they are cooperating to conduct attacks. In fact, al-Qa'ida was opposed to Saddam Hussein's government and saw it as an corrupt, apostate regime that needed to be brought down and made a part of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. Saddam Hussein knew that and wanted to find out what was going on in the group because it was a potential threat to his regime."
May I suggest that you take your claimed psychic powers to the race track instead of threat analysis. You are being overly simplistic. Trans national terrorists with disparate and even opposing views and ideologies have exchanged operational support, intelligence and even have rented their teams out to each other. They do it because it is opportune to do so or they have a common enemy. And in Irag there was a Al Qaida group operating NW of Mosul before the US invasion.
It is preposterous to categorically state that a Wahabbi Sunni Like Osama would never do business with a apostate like Hussein, or never do business with the Shia's, or even the Turkish Grey Wolves.
"Iraqi support for terrorism under Saddam Hussein was directed toward Israel. The Government of Iraq viewed that activity as a war of liberation, not terrorism (its view not mine). A-Qa'ida never had an alliance with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. If Iraqi intelligence services had contact with member of al-Qa'ida that would be normal since it is the job of all intelligence services to develop contacts that will betray either their country or group and provide intelligence to said intelligence service. Such an "association" does not mean they are cooperating to conduct attacks. In fact, al-Qa'ida was opposed to Saddam Hussein's government and saw it as an corrupt, apostate regime that needed to be brought down and made a part of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. Saddam Hussein knew that and wanted to find out what was going on in the group because it was a potential threat to his regime."
May I suggest that you take your claimed psychic powers to the race track instead of threat analysis. You are being overly simplistic. Trans national terrorists with disparate and even opposing views and ideologies have exchanged operational support, intelligence and even have rented their teams out to each other. They do it because it is opportune to do so or they have a common enemy. And in Irag there was a Al Qaida group operating NW of Mosul before the US invasion.
It is preposterous to categorically state that a Wahabbi Sunni Like Osama would never do business with a apostate like Hussein, or never do business with the Shia's, or even the Turkish Grey Wolves.
Any positive news is down played or dismissed, while any possible negatives( confirmed or not) are amplified to the max. No sense of proportionality: beheadings by terrorists get maybe a day or two on the front page, while Abu Ghraib and Gitmo are often front page "news." The media expects everything to be perfect and is extremely quick to jump at anything that may make our President or the troops look bad. When I read the paper, my first thought is always- wow 
, what if this really were true. They rarely, if ever, get it right. They seem to be stuck with the Vietnam era mentality: we're the bully, everthing we do is dubious, the enemy is fighting for honorable reasons... etc. Terrorists are called insurgents,instead of their proper name. I could go on and on. 
