CNN, Guardian: Bin Laden, iRaq party like it's 1999

Can you provide a source for this?

 

No he can't because the US's official policy is that they don't keep track of civilians killed.

 

Can you provide a source for this?

The Constanza Defense- "It's not a lie if you believe it."

This is the truth as long as you don't count all of the innocent people who have killed. Rumsfeld did not know about the Iraq prison tortures, since he forgot he ordered it. Ashcroft did not investigate how far we could go torturing "enemy combatants". Really, he did not do that, at all, ever. Really.

I believe in GWB's moral clarity.

 

That's a fair question bnb. If by 'no links' you mean they never had any contact about anything, I think we can safely say they did have contact. I don't think we could find any credible source to deny that there was contact made between Iraq and Al-Qaeda.

If you mean that we believe that al-Qaeda didn't act in collaboration with al-qaeda in regards to 9-11 but they did act in collaboration with al-Qaeda in regards to other al-qaeda terrorist activities, I believe there is no proof of that either. As far as I know there is no evidence of Saddam's Iraq supporting al-Qaeda in any operational terrorist strike in regards to 9-11 or otherwise. I have seen no evidence of of connection beyond merely contacting one another. Taking the partisan hat off and going by what the Bush administration said prior to the IRaqi invasion, but even post 9/11 there was no collaboration. If we look at the list of 40 nations supplied by the Bush state department of countries in which Al-Qaeda was active post 9/11 - pre U.S. invasion, we find that Iraq was not on the list.

I think we can say that Samoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, or Noriega of Panama were not nice guys either, but that they weren't collaboratively working with the Zapatistas in Mexico. Even though they were mean dictators and the Zapatistas were active in their neighborhood, I don't think we will find a collaborative working relationship.