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Sorry, but Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers. Saddam didn't get along with the terrorists; he thought they were a threat to his own authority.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...%2Fwterr14.xml
“Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.
Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.”


Regardless of the above article Saddam did support Terrorist, he publicly paid Palestinian suicide bombers families, for their service. It is only a short step to supplying them or other terrorist with WOMD

So why did we start a war with Iraq? Why didn't Bush send more troops into Afghanistan instead, to get Osama?

I think that I thoroughly explained the reason that we went to war with Iraq in my previous post. We had enough troops in Afghanistan.

That "intelligence" was flawed; came from highly questionable sources. The intelligence folks questioned it, but the Republican White House wanted a reason to go blast Saddam to kingdom come, so they dusted off that little tid-bit along with other questionable intelligence, hyped it up, and sold it to the US people as a reason to wage war and get 1000 Americans killed.

The “intelligence” didn’t simply come from our own sources, when Russia, Great Brittan and the rest of the world are saying he has WOMD, we knew he had Chemical weapons and the UN knew he had WOMD. (see sources below)

Oh, please . . .
A few months before the war, there was a vote to authorize the President to wage war IF there was no other alternative. Kerry voted in favor.

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/381249|top|08-09-2004::17:46|reuters.html
“GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found.
Taking up a challenge from President Bush, whom he will face in the Nov. 2 election, the Massachusetts senator said: "I'll answer it directly. Yes, I would have voted for the authority. I believe it is the right authority for a president to have but I would have used that authority effectively."”

But, Bush was in a hurry to wage his war . . . he made a tentative effort to get UN approval of the war, but while they were questioning his reasons for waging war (something in his "intelligenc" smelled fishy to them), he got impatient and pulled the trigger, started the war.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.weapons/
“But in an interview Sunday with CNN, Aziz said return of the inspectors would be pointless.
"It's a non-starter because it's not going to bring about a conclusion to the controversy," he said.
Iraq told the United Nations in 1995 it had produced 30,000 liters of biological agents, including anthrax and other toxins it could put on missiles.
U.N. officials say the actual amount may be three or four times greater. “


I don’t remember anything about this “smelly intelligence”, The UN knew he had WOMD, Annan stated so himself. I do remember the UN sitting back and doing nothing, after many years of Iraq thumbing its nose at the rest of the world.

The UN guys had been looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction, and France said they would give their approval of the war IF Bush would let the Weapons Inspectors look for another 30 (THIRTY) days. Bush said no, started the war, said the US could fight the war without the UN.

We would have missed the desired time table to attack. With the weather in Iraq and the sand storms, our troops, had we waited, would have been bogged down in the storms. Saddam had 4 years to hide his weapons and 4 years to prove to the world that he didn’t have them. He chose to play cat and mouse games.

Right.
Since then, he's been pleading with the UN to help clean up his mess. Of course, they've been hesitant, because Bush wants complete control of the UN troops, and the UN doesn't want the US to be sending UN troops to wage stupid and unnecessary confrontations. So, the US gets to do things on its own, and that means higher taxes to pay for all that foolishness, and more of your blood (they'll probably bring back the draft after the election).

The UN wants what France and Germany wants, money. They want to control the money in Iraq, they want to control the contracts to rebuild Iraq.

Again, Iraq did NOT bomb the US. The attack was from Al Quada terrorists, bankrolled by Osama Bin Laden. Bush invaded Iraq instead of going after Osama and his terrorists, largely because he is an incompetant fool.

The war in Afghanistan began long before the war in Iraq.