American stupidity never fails to amaze me and this article is full of humour. Firstly as Hussein says, no Iraqi was involved in 9/11, there was NO evidence at all that Iraq had links with Al Qaeda. The "no fly zones" were NOT authorised by the UN.

Mr. Lee,
I'd hardly consider Saddam Hussein himself an "honest broker" in exactly what his terror ties were.

"No evidence at all that Iraq had links with Al Qaeda" ???

Do you mean no evidence other than the admissions of detainees and defectors? The captured documents and captured Baathists who were Sadddam agents working with al Qaeda?

You can say that these agents might have been spies for Saddam, didn't like Saddam, defected from Saddam, etc (even though you've hardly used that argument or supported it) but to say that there isn't even any evidence of links isn't true. This site is loaded with evidence, if you choose not to believe it that is fine, that doesn't mean that no evidence is avaialable though.

The US,UK and France believed that the UN resolutions were grounds for enforcing no fly zones in North and South Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones

I happen to agree with the resolution protecting the Kurds and Shia including the means to protecting them. If you want to challenge that be my guest.

If you read UN Resolution 688 you can see for yourself that it didn't authorise "no fly zones" http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/sres/sres0688.htm .Indeed it mentioned "Reaffirming the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Iraq and of all States in the area." Clearly the "no fly zones" were a contravention of UN Res 688.

Of course the USA relied on "intelligence" from dissidents and other defectors, Chalabi was one of those, already convicted of fraud but allowed to become a part of the puppet Government. Another was Gen. Hussein Kamel, Saddam's brother in law, who made a statement confirming the total destruction of all WMD which Bush then completely turned around to claim the opposite.
There's no credible evidence at all of a link with Iraq and 9/11 and Al Qaeda. Even Bush in a rare moment of lucidity admitted that fact
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030131-23.html

"Q One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?

THE PRESIDENT: I can't make that claim.

It's not Saddam who can be described as not being an "honest broker" it's Bush, WMD, links with terrorism, able to strike the West in 45 minutes, yellow cake from Niger, even mass graves of 3/400,000, it's was all nonsense and the Americans fell for it. But now 3 years later, it's totally amazing just how brainwashed an entire nation can be, are they unwilling to admit they were fooled or is the media so controlled they are unable to to see the truth for themselves?

Mr. Lee,
The INC hardly makes up all of the detainees/defectors who have discussed Saddam's links to various terrorist groups.

bin Laden's son's mentor has confirmed the cooperation, high ranking Iraqi officials in custody, Abu Zubair, Abu Zubayda, there's a lot. This isn't to say that Iraq and al Qaeda were in total cooperation or total agreement on everything, just that there were instances of limited cooperation.

As someone who's spent 3 years researching this I just ask you to read for yourself instead of just swallowing what you hear on tv.

About 9-11, please feel free to point out where I said Saddam Hussein had anything to with it and then we can discuss that, until then, you can keep knocking down that straw man on your own because it's not my argument to defend, it's one you've created.

So the mass graves that are being recovered each month are fake? Try telling that to all the people who've seen them...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2785095.stm
http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/iraq2003/joyce_030514.html

A simple Google search will find you much more than that as well in terms of mass graves.

The links with PLO, PLF , Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal, etc are much easier to point out and exemplify than the ties to al Qaeda affiliates but those are hardly disputed, are you implying Saddam Hussein had ties with "no terrorists?"

Well according to your own President "there was no NO direct link between Saddam Hussein and the men responsible for 9/11". The people responsible for 9/11 were Qaeda therefore Bush was saying that there was NO direct link between Saddam Hussein and AlQeada.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html

"Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered."

Those 5,000 were a result of the Iranian/Iraqi war. If you believe otherwise perhaps you can say where these fictitious mass graves are located? So for someone who has spent 3 years researching Iraq you seem remarkably ill informed. Saddam was ideologically the opposite of AlQaeda
The only serious links Saddam had with what Americans call "terrorists" was helping the Palestinians resist Israel ethnic cleansing

Mr. Lee,
Mr. Bush has also said that Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda (which he did). I think you are taking his words and projecting what you want them to mean instead of what he actually said. He's been quite clear in that Saddam Hussein had links (safe haven, passports, money, weapons training) to al Qaeda as has the past few CIA directors who gave him that intelligence.

Regarding the 5,000 in mass graves you may be thinking of only one of the countless ones that have been found.

Human Rights Watch is working to document the findings. In early 03, 250 sites had already been identified, some containing thousands of remains. http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/iraq/graves/

You can also check the people with the Iraq Foundation http://www.iraqfoundation.org/index.html

As of last year, the Iraq Human Rights minister reported that 290 mass graves had been found with 300,000 bodies in them
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1696897,00.html

I am sure it's not easy being an apologist for Saddam Hussein's atrocities but you are doing a heck of a job trying to

Blair said clearly that only 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered. I asked you where these mass graves are located, you are unable to do so, but from the figures given they must contain on average 1,000 bodies. Do you seriously believe that Blair would admit to have lied if in fact there was any truth in it?

Incidentally where are the mass graves from Powell's "turkey shoot" when 100,000 Iraqis died, some bulldozed still alive into the sand. Then of course there's 1.3 million Iraqis killed by the UN Sanctions which the US refused to release, where are those people buried? It's some sort of sick joke to suggest that the US has any concern about Iraqis, you only need to see the total chaos in the country now caused by the illegal invasion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/world/middleeast/17forensics.html?ref=middleeast

"At least 100,000 Shiites, and possibly twice that number, died, according to court officials."
That is just one portion of the country.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq501/
I ask you to watch the trailer for that movie as well and reevaluate what kind of monster you are defending Mr. Lee.

I can cite this stuff for hours on end.

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