June 04, 2004

Here’s Good Info for the Next Time Someone Says Hussein Didn’t Support Al Qaeda

Here’s good info regarding the absurd argument that Hussein had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. From Victor Davis Hanson :

No al Qaeda links? Equally bothersome is the old canard, “Saddam was a secularist and hated al Qaeda” as though simultaneous enemies of America have always shared the same ideology. Just ask the Japanese and Germans, or the Chinese and Russians, who agreed to set aside their mutual hatred to fight us for being emissaries of freedom. Under the Clinton administration it was considered standard intelligence dogma that Osama and Saddam worked together; only the controversy over Iraq has post-facto questioned that former pillar of American and European intelligence doctrine and for entirely political reasons.

There was a reason Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas were in Baghdad. And it was the same reason why al Qaeda was working in Kurdistan, why al Zarqawi went to Baghdad to Saddam’s doctors, why there is good reason to believe that before the first World Trade Center bombing the culpable terrorists had ties with Iraqi intelligence, and why seized documents now coming to light in Iraq reveal a long history of cooperation between Islamic terrorists and Saddam’s secret police. To think otherwise would be crazy, given the shared aims of both in attacking Americans and getting them out of the Middle East. The only puzzle is whether Saddam contributed to the 9/11 terrorist fund or simply was apprised of al Qaeda’s general efforts.

Hussein was funding suicide bombers in Israel. Yet the left would have us think that no one who wants to blow up people in Israel, would ever want to blow up Americans. That is unreasonable.

Iraq to U.N.: Let Us Decide For Ourselves How Long U.S. Troops are To Remain

The U.N. wants U.S. troops out of Iraq. And the Iraqis are actually saying loud and clear that the U.N. does not speak for them:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) ...[Iraqi] Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari disagreed with France, Germany, China and others who want a fixed deadline for the force’s withdrawal, subject to renewal. He also opposed a veto over U.S.-led military operations.

“I stress that any premature departure of international troops would lead to chaos and the real possibility of a civil war in Iraq,” he said.

If the U.N. doesn’t care enough about the best interests of Iraqis to even consult with them—then whose interests are they representing?

One thing is evident—it’s not our interests. And it’s not Iraq’s interests.

Kerry wants to turn Iraq’s fate over to the U.N.—an organization which opposes what the Iraqis themselves want.