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No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo
    #2109038 - 11/15/03 12:40 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Does this change the mind of anyone who didn't support the war?

This article, which is about a top secret DoD memo, outlines the 13 year relationship shared by Saddam and Bin Laden. 

It lays out a point by point index of the dealings and meeting of the two and their emmisaries.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp   


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109055 - 11/15/03 12:47 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

i have a feeling that this will be discounted and written off as a fraud by those who'd rather not believe it. eh... i suppose it doesn't matter anyway... after all, osama bin laden wasn't behind 9-11, george bush and his corporate cronies were...  :wink:

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2109065 - 11/15/03 12:50 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

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after all, osama bin laden wasn't behind 9-11, george bush and his corporate cronies were... 




DAMNIT, DAMNIT, DAMNIT!  :mad2:

I keep forgetting that! :smirk: 


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109119 - 11/15/03 01:13 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

This article, which is about a top secret DoD memo

The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller

Not exactly what you'd call independent evidence is it.

btw, any idea what the constant referring to "according to sensitive reporting" means? Practically every claim in the article is "according to sensitive reporting".

I'm not casting any aspersions, all I'm saying is "according to sensitive reporting" is one helluva convenient non-verifiable, checkable source. It's about as useful as saying "according to something I made up this morning..".

(Remember, Iraqi intelligence used liquid paper on an internal intelligence document to conceal bin Laden's name.)

Damn, now that's what I call suspicious  :lol:...no shredder for these guys, no strict order not to write internal intelligence documents and then leave them laying around for the americans to find - nope - "just stick some liquid paper over his name - that'll fool them..." :rolleyes:


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109174 - 11/15/03 01:42 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

what'd i tell you?

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109418 - 11/15/03 03:35 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

It is interesting and Id like to see some complete corrobaration instead of some of the "partially verified", "secret", etcs.

It doesnt change my mind. If we were waging a war against terrorism, then we should have went after Saudi. But we cant, because Saudi is the head of the beast. So, I guess we are trying to whack at some limbs. Strategy and shiznit. Revenge.

I just dont think that we needed to look without on ways to protect us against terrorism. We should have strengthened our homeland instead of sending our troops off to Iraq, including most of our national guards, while we have serious issues to deal with here at home.

Can you imagine what it would be like if a terrorist struck something major right now? Our infastructure is being decimated to fight these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

More soldiers are dying every day. They just lost two helicopters and atleast 12 people this morning.

We trained Bin Laden, too. And Saddam Hussein.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109521 - 11/15/03 04:22 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Why would I start believing what they say now??

Another desperate attempt to justify an unjustifiable war.





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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2109904 - 11/15/03 07:22 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

I think its funny that so many people think that the Iraqi's are idiots. Typical american saying "stupid iraqi's, we krushed there KUntry". So the government has not found Sadaam, nor Osama...Hmmm... Could they be buddys? Maybe maybe not. BUt i dont think Sadaam was stupid enough to believe that when bush made threats that nothing would happen, and that he should make a back up plan. Of course he had a plan, what were all those news reports of those secret vehicles that were out in the dessert that could possibly transport nuclear weapons? What better way to slaughter an army, than to make them think that everything is okay, and for them to be infested in the city. What woudl sadaam have to lose if he blew up all of Baghdad with all the american troops inside, and his people? Well obviously he is at war with america, and his people he could give a shit about. I dont know, i just think that many situtations are being over looked. Thats just what i think would be the smartest thing to do in his situation. Middle Easterners are not dumb, especially in their stand point, war must always be in their minds, or they must always think about being on guard... most of them anyway.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2110137 - 11/15/03 08:55 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

OMG.  I cant believe this didnt ding in my head sooner.

The Weekly Standard?

Holy shit, that thing is the media wing of PNAC.  Bill Kristol is the founder of PNAC and the Weekly Standard's editor.

I bet their spinning this nonsense to high hell on the news and nobody even remembers that if all this were true, why didnt they say so in the beginning?

Douglas Feith is the secret authority?  Holy shit.  Hello PNAC board members.

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2110153 - 11/15/03 09:01 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

I think it's funny that the war apologists were trying to debunk the "myth" that the Bush administration ever made the "osama-saddam" connection in the first place.  I wonder if those debunkers are going to speak out against this news item?  :rolleyes:   


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2110374 - 11/15/03 11:01 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Looks like the Pentagon has already dismissed the "leaked" memo. DoD News.

Like Psilo said, Douglas Feith is one of the most hard-core, neo-cons in Washington. Feith's Office of Special Plans has already been exposed as a key component of how the Administration exagerrated and manipulated the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. These guys have zero credibilty left.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: SquattingMarmot]
    #2110664 - 11/16/03 01:25 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Looks like the Pentagon has already dismissed the "leaked" memo

Don't tell mushmaster, he was really desperate to believe this one.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2110887 - 11/16/03 04:30 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

justification for this "war" is harder to find than "WMD'S".


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Hanky]
    #2110944 - 11/16/03 05:35 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Shh..we're not allowed to mention WMD..it upsets the right-wingers.. :smirk:


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2110967 - 11/16/03 05:56 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

what'd i tell you?

Funny. When it's something you don't want to believe you question the source, when it's something you want to believe you accept the source.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2111075 - 11/16/03 08:06 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

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Alex123 said:
Shh..we're not allowed to mention WMD..it upsets the right-wingers.. :smirk: 




It upsets me to.




 


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: SquattingMarmot]
    #2111323 - 11/16/03 11:38 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

"News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.



A letter was sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee on October 27, 2003 from Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, in response to follow-up questions from his July 10 testimony.    One of the questions posed by the committee asked the Department to provide the reports from the Intelligence Community to which he referred in his testimony before the Committee.  These reports dealt with the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida."

:blush:

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: SquattingMarmot]
    #2111713 - 11/16/03 02:07 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

I was wondering, exactly how did that invalidate the memo?

If you want to doubt Feith, and claim he is a puppet of the admin., then fine.

But do you really think that everyone in the CIA, NSA, DIA, and whoever else agents reports were cited, is lying for administration?  Especially when  most of it was collected during Clinton's administration.

I just don't understand with so many people on both sides at one time all agreed that Saddam was major threat that had to be removed.  But suddenly, this administration is has engineered this whole scenario to fatten their buddies pockets.  They are lying in order to further their game of world domination. :rolleyes:

Look, this adminstration was faced with the harsh reality that their are those who want to destroy us.  They adopted the position of their predecessors, and when the threat was brought home, they had to change their stance on dealing with with the threat.  Diplomacy doesn't work with them.

To claim that they lied, you have to also call all the intelligence agents liars as well, or do you believe those reports were fabricated?  If so, nearly everyone opposed lied about it at one time too.  They are only as good as their intelligence, which I believe was competent.
 


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2111738 - 11/16/03 02:13 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

I just don't understand with so many people on both sides at one time all agreed that Saddam was major threat

I don't think they agreed that at all. Major threat to who? He was at his peak as a tyrant way back in the 80's when Reagan, Bush and Rumsfield were his best buddies.

To claim that they lied, you have to also call all the intelligence agents liars as well, or do you believe those reports were fabricated?

The intelligence reports (according to Bush and Blair at least) claimed Saddam had WMD. He hasn't. What else can you call it but fabrication?

I have heard reports that the intelligence agencies are very angry at the way Bush and Blair spun their reports to give a misleading impression.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2111799 - 11/16/03 02:37 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

I wish someone would post the pic of Rmusfeld shaking hands with Sadamm.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2111836 - 11/16/03 02:51 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

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I don't think they agreed that at all.




Just a few of those who changed their mind.

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." -- From a letter signed by Joe Lieberman, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara A. Milulski, Tom Daschle, & John Kerry among others on October 9, 1998

"This December will mark three years since United Nations inspectors last visited Iraq. There is no doubt that since that time, Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to refine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer- range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." -- From a December 6, 2001 letter signed by Bob Graham, Joe Lieberman, Harold Ford, & Tom Lantos among others

"Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998

"Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement." -- Barbara Boxer, November 8, 2002

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability. Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability." -- Robert Byrd, October 2002

"What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs." -- Jacques Chirac, October 16, 2002

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002

"I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out." -- Clinton's Secretary of Defense William Cohen in April of 2003

"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998

"Saddam Hussein's regime represents a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally, Israel. For more than two decades, Saddam Hussein has sought weapons of mass destruction through every available means. We know that he has chemical and biological weapons. He has already used them against his neighbors and his own people, and is trying to build more. We know that he is doing everything he can to build nuclear weapons, and we know that each day he gets closer to achieving that goal." -- John Edwards, Oct 10, 2002

"I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction." -- Dick Gephardt in September of 2002

"Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Bob Graham, December 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002

"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." -- Carl Levin, Sept 19, 2002

"Over the years, Iraq has worked to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. During 1991 - 1994, despite Iraq's denials, U.N. inspectors discovered and dismantled a large network of nuclear facilities that Iraq was using to develop nuclear weapons. Various reports indicate that Iraq is still actively pursuing nuclear weapons capability. There is no reason to think otherwise. Beyond nuclear weapons, Iraq has actively pursued biological and chemical weapons.U.N. inspectors have said that Iraq's claims about biological weapons is neither credible nor verifiable. In 1986, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran, and later, against its own Kurdish population. While weapons inspections have been successful in the past, there have been no inspections since the end of 1998. There can be no doubt that Iraq has continued to pursue its goal of obtaining weapons of mass destruction." -- Patty Murray, October 9, 2002

"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998

"Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed. Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents. Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. This agent is stored in artillery shells, bombs, and ballistic missile warheads. And Iraq retains significant dual-use industrial infrastructure that can be used to rapidly reconstitute large-scale chemical weapons production." -- Ex-Un Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in 1998

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources -- something that is not that difficult in the current world. We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002

"Saddam?s existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq?s enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East." -- John Rockefeller, Oct 10, 2002

"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Administration?s policy towards Iraq, I don?t think there can be any question about Saddam?s conduct. He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts." -- Henry Waxman, Oct 10, 2002



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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2111857 - 11/16/03 02:57 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

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I just don't understand with so many people on both sides at one time all agreed that Saddam was major threat




Video of Powell and Rice saying Saddam was not a threat even to his neighbors(2001)






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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2113989 - 11/17/03 12:18 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Just a few of those who changed their mind.

Not so much a case of changing their mind as being proved utterly and resoundingly wrong.

Read people like Scott Ritter for an insight into what inspectors on the ground were saying - that there were no WMD's or WMD programs.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2114152 - 11/17/03 01:07 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46460-2003Nov15.html

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CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 16, 2003; Page A20

The CIA's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no evidence that former president Saddam Hussein tried to transfer chemical or biological technology or weapons to terrorists, according to a military and intelligence expert...




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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2115660 - 11/17/03 09:16 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

As shown in pinksharkmark's post about Scott Ritter, he has NO credibility. Unlike Bush and Co., who everyone seems to want to label a liar, there is actually evidence to corroborate his sudden change of heart.

I wonder if the Dem's taught him that?


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2115871 - 11/17/03 10:29 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

As shown in pinksharkmark's post about Scott Ritter, he has NO credibility. Unlike Bush and Co

Except Ritter was right and Bush and Blair were wrong.

I don't know about you but being right makes you pretty credible in my eyes.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2116381 - 11/17/03 12:18 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

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When it's something you don't want to believe you question the source, when it's something you want to believe you accept the source.



Talking to yourself again?


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: Xlea321]
    #2116467 - 11/17/03 12:40 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998

Propaganda like this is repeated over and over again, and it's seriously beginning to bug me. What an extremely naive and ignorant person you would have to be before this would mean anything to you.

Yes. Iraq, with Saddam at the helm, launched several gas attacks at Kurd villages in 1988. Quick history lesson: The Kurds have been fighting for their independence for a century. Kurdish guerilla have been active all that time, launching attacks on both Turkey and Iraq. By American standards, they are terrorists. The Iraqi attacks on Kurd villages were their "war on terrorism". And as with the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was "collateral damage" (albeit harsher.. but hey, who's doing a bodycount anyway).

Now here's my main beef with this piece of trite:

- Kurds are not "his own people", not by a long shot.
- If they were, how would that change anything? Still an atrocity, no?
- Turkey, a US NATO ally, have routinely massacered Kurd villages and tortured their political leaders. According to the US, this is legitimate anti-terrorist measures. Double standards?

To fall for bullshit propaganda like this, you would have to be seriously lacking in knowledge about the matters at hand.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: muhurgle]
    #2116475 - 11/17/03 12:41 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

now we've got a guy defending the gassing of thousands of kurdish civilians... great.  :thumbup:

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2116507 - 11/17/03 12:46 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

What? Please show me the logical steps that made you come to this conclusion. This should be interesting.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: muhurgle]
    #2116525 - 11/17/03 12:50 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Quick history lesson: The Kurds have been fighting for their independence for a century. Kurdish guerilla have been active all that time, launching attacks on both Turkey and Iraq. By American standards, they are terrorists. The Iraqi attacks on Kurd villages were their "war on terrorism". And as with the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was "collateral damage" (albeit harsher.. but hey, who's doing a bodycount anyway).

please bring me some sort of evidence showing how extensive the kurdish terrorist campaign was. show me to what extent kurdish seperatists were attacking civilian targets.

even if there were kurdish terrorist groups, that wouldn't make it right. would it be right for israel to go gas thousands and thousands of palestinians? hell no... let's not forget either that gassing was just one of many policies hussein used for "taking care of" the kurds. how would you feel if israel dropped sarin on palestinian villages? double standards?

- Kurds are not "his own people", not by a long shot.

they lived inside his borders. they were under his rule. they had a little autonomy, but not sovereignity. they were indeed citizens of iraq. even if they weren't, would that make things any better?

- If they were, how would that change anything? Still an atrocity, no?

um... yes. gassing villages and killing thousands of civilians is an atrocity.

- Turkey, a US NATO ally, have routinely massacered Kurd villages and tortured their political leaders. According to the US, this is legitimate anti-terrorist measures.

which is wrong, and please show me where the US has indicated that it supports these sorts of measures as parts of a legitimate anti-terrorism campaign.

To fall for bullshit propaganda like this, you would have to be seriously lacking in knowledge about the matters at hand.

i disagree. gassing thousands of civilians (especially as part of a larger campaign of quasi-genocidal oppression) is very, very wrong.

i hope you don't seriously believe any of the shit you just wrote.

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2116542 - 11/17/03 12:53 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

now for the standard fallback... if i may predict...

i'm wagering it'll be something along the lines of...

"the US was supporting him when he did it" or "the US has done things like that too before"...

let's see...

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2116615 - 11/17/03 01:08 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

even if there were kurdish terrorist groups, that wouldn't make it right. would it be right for israel to go gas thousands and thousands of palestinians? hell no... let's not forget either that gassing was just one of many policies hussein used for "taking care of" the kurds. how would you feel if israel dropped sarin on palestinian villages? double standards?

Please don't warp what I'm saying. I didn't defend it. I said it was an atrocity. Since I compared it to the US war on terrorism (which also have many civillian lives on it's conscience) you automatically think that I'm defending it?

they lived inside his borders. they were under his rule. they had a little autonomy, but not sovereignity. they were indeed citizens of iraq. even if they weren't, would that make things any better?

They're still not his own people, just like the palestinians aren't Sharons own people although the relationship between them is about the same. Anyway, as I explained in the next sentence (and as you repeated as a statement of your own) the point is moot. It's just as bad if they were "his own people" or not, so why make a major political point out of it?

- Turkey, a US NATO ally, have routinely massacered Kurd villages and tortured their political leaders. According to the US, this is legitimate anti-terrorist measures.

which is wrong.


Yes, but you won't see the US using this as an argument to invade Turkey anytime soon. They won't even condemn their actions, since Turkey is an important ally. The original quote and it's use in promoting a war against Iraq is therefore just propaganda for the masses. The people who brings this up again and again aren't genuinly concerned about the well beings of the Kurds.

i disagree. gassing thousands of civilians (especially as part of a larger campaign of quasi-genocidal oppression) is very, very wrong.

We both agree that genocide is wrong. My only beef was with the original quote and similarily simplistic propaganda which is extremely hypocritical, to say the least.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: muhurgle]
    #2116633 - 11/17/03 01:13 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

so it seems i misunderstood you... it sure sounded to me like you were defending hussein's gassing.

the quote you say you've got a problem with is correct as far as i know. has any other government used WMD's against it's own citizens? i can't think of any.

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Invisiblemuhurgle
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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2116686 - 11/17/03 01:26 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

the quote you say you've got a problem with is correct as far as i know. has any other government used WMD's against it's own citizens? i can't think of any

I don't dispute the facts, I just say that I dislike the hypocrisy behind the reasoning of US officials and others which propagate this quote. If they really were concerned with the well being of Kurds, they would at the very least condemn Turkish actions in the same area.

Since they provably lack this concern, the quote is nothing more than propaganda.

Also, it seems that you've fallen victim to the rethoric that using WMD's are inheritly more evil than killing civillians en masse any other way.


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: ]
    #2116870 - 11/17/03 02:21 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

it sure sounded to me like you were defending hussein's gassing

Nah, only person I've ever heard defending hussein's gassing is Bush when he tried to blame it on the Iranians.

More than most, the people of Halabja would love to see the end of Saddam Hussein but many are sceptical about American motives, pointing out that Washington was backing him at the time and tried to blame nearby Iran for the chemical attack on Halabja.

http://www.lastsuperpower.net/Members/kesa/News_Item.2003-03-20.4953


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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #2118561 - 11/17/03 10:30 PM (20 years, 4 months ago)

come on man

there is more of a bin ladin/ bush family relationship.

stop seeing what you want to see and view whats left of our planet for what it is.

if the US doesnt acquire (more) middle east oil there will be a massive energy shortage in the US. ie blackouts and economic depression


the survival of disgusting luxury is a stake if we do not get the crude.

i do not support this war or excess

instead of trying to support bush or saddam, acknowledge that they are both peices of shit.

what is happening in iraq is a crime against humanity. this is the origins of human civilization (tigris euphrates river valleys)(babylon) that the US has destroyed, along w/ thousands of innocent lives on both sides.

if you want to support bush, admit you want the oil so we can see dwindling "economic growth" for another 10 yrs.

remember cambodia, germany, african and SA counries that we have turned to shit. the men that take over when we leave are far more dangerous.

expect genocide
expect terrorism

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: pattern]
    #2124288 - 11/20/03 01:29 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

pattern said:
I think it's funny that the war apologists were trying to debunk the "myth" that the Bush administration ever made the "osama-saddam" connection in the first place.  I wonder if those debunkers are going to speak out against this news item?  :rolleyes:   




Think it is funny all you want. It is the truth. Why would someone speak out against this? The administration has never said one way or the other if there was definately a connection between the two. I guess the whole Baathist/Jihadi fruitcake being enemies argument is finally overwith. They are working together in Iraq now after all.

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Re: No Saddam/Bin Laden connection eh? Top Secret memo [Re: shakta]
    #2124796 - 11/20/03 10:08 AM (20 years, 4 months ago)

It is the truth.

Only in your mind.

The administration has never said one way or the other if there was definately a connection between the two.

"Definate connections" are not what propaganda is about. The moment you start making "definate connections" people can call you on your bullshit. Propaganda is about making subtle connections and establishing frameworks of belief. If you're vulnerable to it - like you - then you won't protest when an illegal war of aggression is launched. The propaganda has prepared you for it.

They are working together in Iraq now after all.

Who told you this? The little mouse in your pocket? Even the american military don't know who'se behind the insurgency.


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