From BBKings post :
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Why there were no al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq before the invasion, but now they and their followers are powerful and influential enough to stop the election being in any way free, fair or representative.
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From MattD's post:
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True. America is not evil (although I think some members of its government may be  ), & terrorists *were* to blame for 9/11.
But, what has 9/11 got to do with Iraq?
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Has anyone watched 9/11 ? ok its a Michael Moore film but he possits in the documentary that we went to war on Iraq for one reason. That was becasue we could not go to war on the Saudi's who harbour the bin Laden's. THey jsut happen to be a most powerful and money doctrined middle east family who have the chief of Al'Qaeda Osama within their mists.
There were NO Iraqi's involved in the 9/11 bombing. That is a fact easily looked up on the net or within other media. Most of the terrorists involved were from the Al'Qaeda network working directly for Osama bin Laden.
Audaciously America suggested that IRAQ was responsible for the 9/11 bombings and decided that they had WMD's, that we now know to be flawed intelligence, and off they went charging up their tanks, boats and missiles to invade the terrorist nation. Islam is not an awful religion. Most of it, from what little I have read, concerns being good to one another. Just like the Christianity that Bush preaches and practises in his corner of the world. The problem stems from the way some of the clerics interpreted the Koran. They decided, no one else, how muslims were going to potray themselves in THEIR areas of the world. Saddam was deeply in the hands of the clerics. He was what we in the West term a dictator and a tyrant but there again I don't begin to understand how his mind and religious beliefs functioned. The only good thing to come out of that was was the dethronement of Saddam.
Another fact. Special ops forces probably had their sites on him in the last Gulf war but were called out. Why ? Due to the US helping Saddam with weapons, money and oil.
Bush was in business with the bin Laden family when he ran a huge US company. He wasn't going to hurt people who are valuable to him.
Politics is a nasty business especially when there are times of misinformed war. The biggest reason the "insurgents" are rebelling is because we are not rebuilding their country quick enough. As for the pictures from May 2003 they are disgusting. Sexual explitation has always been used as a torture device. Mostly against women. Look at the Croatian war, the holocaust and our treatment of POW's in Kenya one of our long lost colonies. It should not happen in a developed country. It shouldn't happen at all and there are no excuses for treating looters in that way. The court decision will have to set an example to the world and to the Iraqi people so that they know that at least the BRitish are not tyrants.
I'll shut up now
Sian