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Originally posted by Irish
If you say that there was no reason,I refer you to the New York
Times piece,yesterdayA (in my opinion)purely liberal newspaper!
Irish
P.S.I don't read that newspaper,but it was spoken about on many newscasts yesterday.The newscasts said,that the newspaper,had that article,for a long time,but held it while they
published the 911 commisions finding of no connection.
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I had to wade through the NYT website anf found these 2:
**Thousands in Ireland Protest Bush Visit
**By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) News
**Poll: 54 Percent Say Iraq War a Mistake
**By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) News
...before finding this (Hope it is what you were referring to.):
**Iraqis, Seeking Foes of Saudis, Contacted bin Laden, File Says
**By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) News
Looks like the article is about some contact for support that Iraq qas looking for against an enemy about 10 years ago. They supposedly approached bin Laden looking for it. The relationship between bin Laden and Hussein over the past decade has been strained to put it mildly. The two simply don't play well together, had different agendas and were pretty much enemies. bin Laden actually made some statements appealing to Muslims to overthrow Iraq, claiming that it was an enemy to the people. Some of these statements were made only a month or two before the U.S. invaded. They certainly are not allies.
An aside note, Bush's family has a history of strong ties to the bin Laden family right up until the 911 attack. Certainly this does not mean that Bush played a role in supporting it.
I never said that there was no reason to invade Iraq, but one could justify invasion and war with a dozen countries around the world if the focus was on shady dealings or even atrocities committed. I love the U.S., but our nation has many blights on it and one only look at a daily newspaper to give an extremeist some wacked excuse for declaring war on us. My contention was and is that Bush threw out untruths as a justification to gain support. Now that pieces of the truth (or at least pnowledge of some untruths) are coming out... it is time to vote with your conscience, whatever that may be.
Thanks for the dialogue, Irish.
Fred