No offense, but I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or are just poorly informed.

Maybe when you’ve been here more than one day eleven hours you will figure out who deals in facts and who blows smoke.

If you want to build some credibility here you may want to do fact checking before spouting off.
Free tip-take it or leave it.

Oh, and welcome, hope you hang around.

Regards

You’re right, of course. The entire history of the world is being rewritten by a vast left-wing conspiracy seeking to rob you of your guns, your taxes, your safety, and your peace of mind. Oh, and your religion, too.

I am part of this conspiracy. Why? Because the ringleaders offered me cookies. I’m hoping to receive those in the next few years or so.

Enjoy delusion, I hear it’s much happier than reality.

Unbelievable that the press would even try pass the lie on , even to this day. I mean, even CNN reported the yellowcake from Iraq, of course no body told them until was safely delivered.

Hang Tuff’

Regards

If there is a specially warm spot below, I’m sure he is in it.

Regards

‘Here he is in Crawford, early in 2002, being interviewed by Trevor McDonald of Britain’s ITN:

“I made up my mind that Saddam needs to go,” said Bush.

“And, of course, if the logic of the war on terror means anything,” Sir Trevor responded, relentlessly forensic in his determination not to let Bush get away with these shifty evasions, “then Saddam must go?”

“That’s what I just said,” said the President. “The policy of my government is that he goes.”

“So you’re going to go after him?” pressed Sir Trevor, reluctant to take yes for an answer.

“As I told you,” said the President, “the policy of my government is that Saddam Hussein not be in power.” ‘

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1637/28/

Net: The events of 9-11 meant that a dodging rogue like Saddam Hussein simply could no longer be tolerated.

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/98110403_nlt.html

“In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the Government of
Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on
particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al
Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq,” the
indictment said.”

That indictment is from USIA which was the was the US Information Agency and a clearing house for government documents until 1999.

FYI the above was in 1998….SO you can find evidence of AQ in Iraq and working with Iraq IF you want to BUT you don’t and of course the President didn’t push it hard enough BUT that’s OK because I am comfortable with the War in Iraq as just the President opening another FRONT in the WOT and in such that is a DIRECT result of 9-11!

If Barack Obama had rallied on about the link between Iraq and the September 11th terrorists, it would still be wrong.

My point in this isn’t to accuse Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rice or anyone else of deception; my point was to state that there isn’t a link between Iraq and September 11th, except the wear argument that binds all post-September 11th global affairs to the attacks.

The only link between September 11th and the war in Iraq is the “butterfly flaps its wings in America, a tsunami forms in the Indian Ocean” argument. This was not a direct cause-and-effect situation, nor should it be presented as such.

There is NO ONE that should have the right to INVENT HISTORY for ALL the American people, just because THEY don’t like what happened. Nor should YOU.

Of course, the liberals’ anger-clouded brains can’t see that.
(Apostrophe intentionally placed after the s in liberals)

Bernie Sanders SHOULD NOT be able to get a change on a picture that is for ALL of the American people because HE doesn’t like what it says….and nor do YOU!

There is a great deal missing from the statement as to HOW the attacks on September 11th led to the war in Iraq (Afghanistan is a pretty straightforward issue). In that regard, I can agree with Sanders’ point.

The attacks on September 11th led directly to the invasion of Afghanistan, known to be a safe haven for Al Quaida and suspected as the hideout of Osama Bin Laden, but the course to Iraq was a long, winding, and often misleading journey.

Condeleza Rice and Dick Cheney, among others, avoided connecting Iraq to September 11th, but made later-repudiated claims of a connection to Al Quaida. Further, unsubstantiated claims of a direct threat to the United States posed by Iraq, specifically regarding WMDs that have yet to be found, were used to drive us to war.

Iraq was a complicated case of bad intelligence coupled with an ambition to fight a global war on terror. Whether the war in Iraq is, or was at its onset, justifiable will be surely be debated for decades, just as is US involvement in Vietnam. Undeniable is that the events of September 11th changed this nation’s course. The entire geopolitical outlook of our nation was altered. And, by that standard, it’s possible to link many, if not most, of the United States’ post-September 11th policies and actions to those attacks. However, I would argue that to do such would be irresponsible.

To link the September 11th attacks to the war in Iraq by so simply-drawn a line is to ignore a great deal of politics, for better or worse, that so weakly connected the two in the first place.

The caption should read “the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to war in Afghanistan.” How we ended up in Afghanistan is a simpler story; leave the story of our involvement in Iraq for the history books, not a blurb or caption.

1) Bush and Cheney were very careful not to say that Iraq and Al Qaeda had a direct link, supporting your point; they were precise in what they said.

2) The majority of the American public think they did, largely because they were often mentioned in the same speech (as part of the larger GWOT), and iirc continued to think they did at least through the ’04 elections, so it’s not that the OP is completely off his rocker… well, at least not on this.

(and if I could do fancy things on this thing, I might just put up a picture of a bunny saying something witty, but I fail at that, so I just waste a lot of time typing words. )

“Bush never pinned blame for the attacks directly on the Iraqi president. Still, the overall effect was to reinforce an impression that persists among much of the American public: that the Iraqi dictator did play a direct role in the attacks.”

I’ll just interpret that for you…”Bush didn’t link Iraq to 9-11 attacks. However, we so badly want him to that we’re going to pretend that he did.” Just like you.

You can go away now.