Harsh: But taking too long to get to the point does not undermine the validity of Guariglia’s article which is absolutely correct. Furthermore, the truth is that Sadaam already had attacked us twice; WTC bombing in 1993 was headed by Ramzi Yousef using Iraqi passport and another passport, a Kuwaiti passport taken from a dead Kuwait. Also the bomb mixer on that mission, Yasin, fled to Iraq and was harbored for a decade (remember the Bush speech about harboring terrorists which also included Abu Abbas). And the Iraqis helped with 9/11. Shakir, their intell agent met with two 9/11 highjackers at the key meeting in Malaysia in 2000 before the hijackers entered the US; and agent Hijazi delivered blank Yemeni passports to Bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998 and Zawahiri met with the Iraqis and other AQ staff met in Feb/March 1998 in Baghdad with Iraqi intell. Saudi born terrorists were trained in 1999 in southern Iraq. And Al Ani, Iraqi intell agent met with Mohammed Atta before going on his mission. Finally, no mentions the fact that Russia in the 1990s signed an agreement to sell hundreds of tanks to Sadaam as soon as sanctions were lifted nor that during the first couple of years of this century Sadaam’s sons had cemented good relations with Iran, destroying the notion of Iraq as a block against Iranian expansion. The current Syrian-Iranian alliance undergirded by Russia would have included Sadaam as a third partner; a much stronger dangerous alliance than we face today thanks to George Bush’s intervention.
