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U.S. Marines find al-Qaeda link

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Blackhawk, Dec 31, 2003.

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    saaaaay. Maybe that's what Bush was really doing there on Thanksgiving. Conveniently planting false Al-Quaeda literature and carefully planning the timing of the Saddam grab and weapons location.

    Tongue now firmly removed from cheek -- I can't imagine that this surprises anyone, with the exception of those who refuse to acknowledge that the old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" has a basis in reality and "my enemy" here is or was the US.
     
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    Wow! What a shocker! Imagine - Iraqi fighters actually having weapons! And videotapes! With al Qaeda connections! This sure supports the reason for the war in the first place.

    *waits for something that actually shows Iraq has WMD's*
     
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    What difference would that make ? If they found something now, most people would say it's planted anyway.
     
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    Pac Man, maybe it surprises you, but couildn't it be that this stuff found its way into Iraq .... somewhere after the invasion? Just a thought.

    And a couple of videos found in a post-war resistance cell ... err ... hardly justify ... preemptiveley ... attacking a country and occupying it. And I find it's a little far fetched to say they create the evidence of Saddam cooperating with Bin Laden. Really.
     
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    Yes, of course it could, but that's exactly what i mean, you and a lot of others won't accept anything that will pop up NOW in Iraq, no evidence will be good enough for you. Not that this is evidence, mind you.
     
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    Pac man,
    did it ever come to your mind that it's you who believes what he wants to see, who's, perhaps, making a mistake?
     
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    This is why I made the "tribe" reference. Some socities do not work the same way that Europe and the United States function.

    The fact it was found where it was, adds huge credibility to Saddam knowing.
     
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    Exactly what kind of mistake am i making then ? Not blindly follow you in your "evil empire" theories ?

    I don't think they'll find anything that proves Iraq had WoMD, because i truly think they didn't have any, not anymore that is. They HAD them AND used them in the past, that's a proven fact, but i think they got rid of them years ago, whatever the reason might have been. The only thing i can blame the US is lie about their real intentions. But since we're talking about Saddam's regime, i don't see why there should be any explaination towards any other nations, who all have their own little agenda's and interrests. Now all that remains is the downfall of one of the most brutal regimes of the past century, and that's good enough for me. I don't need any more "why's" and "if's".
     
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    For me as well. But we are perhaps talking about different things.

    No people, I am not 'bashing America' again, I refer to all of them. America, Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, the WTO, the UN, local government, federal government, all of them.

    I shall refuse rest until they lie in ruins, and all are gone. Then, and only then, shall I seek my end. I wait, until such a time comes when the moment is upon us, and all shall fall. And it shall be seen that none has fallen, that what seems to have risen was there always, and always shall, until such time comes that it is not, but we have blinded ourselves, struck out our eyes and defeaned our ears with out deathly slumber, and there shall be no tradgedy, for what has gone was never there, it was the illusion, a comfort we have drawn about ourselves to deny the fact that we are senseless. Every minute before this happens, every instant that it does not occur, is but the typhoon-wind that stirs the storm. It is the breaking point of burden upon burden we heap willingly upon ourselves, until we realize that all we carry amounts to naught, and yet we bear with us the greatest weight there is, one so heavy, and so intrinsic to us, that it will not deem comparison to any other, for there is no other when so compared. There never was.


    Only that will be good enough for me, all else is duration, nothing more.
     
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    Oh, so nooooow it's convenient to find evidence of Saddam co-working with the terrorist organisation that proclaimed he and his regime as evil as the USA?

    Great, well i never believed that Iraq under Saddam cooperated with Usama Bin-Laden in the first place, and i am not doing it until Usama says so in front of a camera.
     
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    Hmm, what I really wonder about ... Bush, so hard pressed to provide genuine evidence ... why doesn't the Whitehouse report this truly undeniable, totally unambiguous evidence for Saddam's cooperation with Bin Laden?

    They must have overlooked it over christmas ... or they have learned something from the "... just 16 words ..." thingie ...

    [ January 05, 2004, 20:52: Message edited by: Ragusa ]
     
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    True. He did work well with himself. ;)
     
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    Bleh :p
     
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