Quote:Fast-forward to the second war with Iraq (which technically speaking was part of the Global War on Terrorism).  Many of the radicals that trained in Afghanistan, funded by certain "Islamic charities" and people such as Osama bin Laden were showing up in Iraq.  Much like what happened in Afghanistan, they wanted to establish an Islamic State ruled by Sharia Law.  There was no way that we (the U.S.) were going to allow radical jihadists to gain possession of chemical weapons.

 

I gotta hand it to you, you don't drink the Kool-Aid, you guzzle it.

 

The Bush administration never said terrorists were "showing up in Iraq", they sold that angle as deep, concerted coordination between Saddam and Al Qaeda. That never happened. There were contacts between the two parties, but no evidence anything came of them. Why would Saddam cooperate with the very folks whose goal is to overthrow leaders of secular Arab governments, like his?

 

Yes, there were terrorist training camps in a region out of Hussein's control, in the Kurdish north. That's it. The only way they were gaining a foothold in Iraq was for someone to remove Hussein and dismantle his security infrastructure.

 

We handled that part quite nicely, didn't we?

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