To Fantom: chances are pretty good that I’ve researched a bit more than you or your buddies — and most especially that lying ass faker, Stephen F. Hayes — into what real evidence there was and wasn’t for WMD’s and al-Qaeda connections. The short answer is diddly and squat. While there was some genuine ignorance about what Hussein was really up to before 9/11, by the time Bush ordered the “preemptive” invasion, pretty much all of the evidence and intel gathered in the meantime was going against his claims. But he invaded anyway. Those “recovered” documents you referred to added nothing to what the CIA and others already knew: there was a couple of low level meetings between Hussein’s people and al-Qaeda’s people back in the early to mid-90′s, but nothing came of them. End of story. Those of you claiming that even these represent “ties” are idiots — it’s like saying that you have “ties” to some homeless guy you ran into a few times 15-20 yrs ago, who had asked you for a handout, but you had refused. The WMD’s? Aside from a few random, deteriorated leftovers from the Iran-Iraq war, nobody was finding them, nobody was detecting them, not the UN inspectors, not any of the US spy agancies, not US special forces. Nobody. There was also no indication that they were moved to Syria or anyplace else.
And the fallback excuse of using UN sanctions was cynical and laughable — why not invade Israel if you’re going to invade a country based on UN sanctions?
Hope this clarifies.
