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18 November 2004, 20:59

1. War in Iraq was illegal? No, our Congress gave the President authority to do it, as your government approved their participation. If you are referring to the UN security council vote and France’s threat of boycott, well the French clearly had their own motivations: 1. dirty oil for food program bribes and illegal miltary contracts from Saddam. Ask Kofi Anon about the bribes his son got from Saddam.

2. Saddam did have a connection to terrorism. He gave 25 thousand dollars to each Palestinian suicide bomber, encouraging terrorism. He had connections with Al Qaeda and Al Zarqawi and Ansar Al-Islam. He was not involved in 9/11 but had been shooting at US jets enforcing UN no fly zone for 10 years, gassed his own population and was a loose cannon in an already unstable and anti-west middle east. Although we did not find WMD it has been determined that he could have reconstituted his nuclear program in one year and was actively working to undermine the military effects of UN sanctions.

3. All major intelligence agencies (US, France, UK and Russian) believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. We acted on that. The fact that he may not have actually had them does not change anything. After 9/11 (when we WERE attacked) we can’t take the chance of letting someone "pass off" a nuke to terrorists. Apparently your government feels the same, even if you don’t.

As far as the Shia go, how does putting down the thug Al Sadr relate? He is not respected or respectable, he’s a pimp. Al-Sistani is the man whom the Shia respect, and we have taken great pains to do things in a way acceptable to him, that is why he encourages people to participate in the upcoming election. What we did with Saddam in the 80’s had to do with getting him in our camp instead of the Soviets. You do remember the Cold War don’t you and what it felt like to face the threat of nuclear obliteration from Soviet ICBM’s don’t you?

You ultra libs in Europe don’t realize that the peace and prosperity you have is a direct result of the US. You take your freedoms for granted and live in the non realistic post modern socialist world of Europe that believe that negotiation and appeasement are good enough. You are instantly ready to align yourself with people who would destroy your civilization. That is traitorous and that is seditious and that is what you are.