But we shouldn’t have gone to war with this tyrant after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, right? (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
Saddam’s Terror Training Camps – Weekly Standard
THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.
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The discovery of the information on jihadist training camps in Iraq would seem to have two major consequences: It exposes the flawed assumptions of the experts and U.S. intelligence officials who told us for years that a secularist like Saddam Hussein would never work with Islamic radicals, any more than such jihadists would work with an infidel like the Iraqi dictator. It also reminds us that valuable information remains buried in the mountain of documents recovered in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past four years.
Hey, Senators Kennedy, Kerry, Reid & Rep. Murtha — don’t let these facts get in the way of your coddling our enemies with your rhetoric.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Bruce, did you know that the United States is allowing Anti-Christian clothing to be imported from countries that condone the Muslim rape of white women?
Bruce, you attack obviously reprehensible traitors like Kerry, Kennedy, and Murtha, yet when it comes time to show real courage and stand up for a Christian Patriot like Tom DeLay, you stab the party in the back. You are worse then the liberal democrats.
That’s certainly trivial compared to marching in demonstrations in Arab drag and supporting “poor, oppressed” Palestinians.
Ah, we have our kool-aid drinkers too. Delay dug his own grave with his shady deals — and spearheaded the Republican porkfest. Let him take responsibility for his actions, and in the meantime, let’s put a Goldwater conservative like Pence in his place.
So ROT….. the fact that your christian patriot is a CRIMINAL makes no difference to you? and furthermore, why is the fact that he is a christian relevant?
I think your guys are forgetting everything that Tom DeLay accomplished for the party. He made our majorities bigger. He got the Patriot Act through, tax relief. Yeah, politics is rough. Maybe he did a couple of things which are questionable. But do you think the Democrats didn’t do 10 times worse? What do you think the lesson is now to the next Republican leader? Don’t be bold, or we will not support you. Well guess what guys, that is exactly how we help Nancy Pelosi become the next majority leader.
Yeah, it is kind of sad how some people don’t have respect for our leaders. I mean, Tom DeLay, after everything he did, now just gets a big “fuck you” from Gay”Patriot”.
Perhaps if we endured a session with Pelosi as Speaker, nauseating as that might be, the Republicans would remember the ideas that put them in control in the first place. One thing you can say for certain is that the GOP has abandoned many of its ideas from 1994 and have become as bad if not worse spendthrifts than the Democrats. Perhaps a lesson in humility is needed to remind them just who they work for…
RonT, I will put it this way….while I appreciate Tom DeLay’s service immensely, I believe the time has come for him to gracefully step down and focus his efforts on his re-election, his trial, and the other issues surrounding him.
At this point in time, his other activities are a distraction; it does neither the House or DeLay any good for him to remain as Majority Leader.
What happened to talking about Iraq and the evidence showing th existence of terrorist training camps within the country, thus reaffirming that Bush DID make the right decision to open the fight against terror on that front???
I’m all for more and more evidence coming to light, but this is not new. As long ago as 2002 we had reports of the Salman Pak training camp southeast of Baghdad, which included an airplane and a train that defectors said were used to practice hijacking and other terrorist activities.
the fact that your christian patriot is a CRIMINAL makes no difference to you?
Just goes to show that “innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t mean a damn to liberals.
I think #2 is a Moby. For one thing, his sig link is phony but similar to The New Republic’s URL. For second, I don’t know any real conservatives who are that shrill.
As for Mr. DeLay, I think mose of us are of mixed feelings. On the one hand, he is a thoroughly reptilian politician who strongarmed the worst single piece of legislation of the Bush years — the Prescription Drug Giveaway — through the House. But on the other, we know Ronnie Earle is a demented partisan shill who’s charges are meritless.
I don’t know any real conservatives who are that shrill.
Let me rephrase. What I meant was, the making of a criticism in the form of a whiny, shrill “Why don’t you…” question is far more typical of a lefty than a righty.
I see, now we’re supposed to excuse the completely inept occupation and reconstruction phase? There has to have been a way to dismantle the Hussein regime without the deaths of 30,000 Iraqis (Bush’s figure) and more than 2,000 Americans.
#14 I see, now nobody on the left cares anymore about “Bush lied” and “Iraq had no ties to terrorism or Al Qaida” and “blood for oil” and “Iraq was no threat to the U.S.”?
#14 — Do you have a suggestion? Maybe another 12 years of sanctions undercut by oil-for-food bribes coupled with resolution after resolution that no one had any intention of enforcing?
Consider this as well….what you have there is Saddam’s new and effective delivery system for concealing and delivering weapons of mass destruction. Why keep anthrax, nerve gas, and nuclear materials in a form like shells or bombs, whose locations and visibility make it possible that even a bumbling and bribed idiot like Hans Blix or Mohammed el-Baradei could stumble on them? Instead, divide it into small quantities, send it away separately, and blammo….there you have it.
And, V the K, you nailed it. Funny how the statements of the Democrats about how we should listen to the rest of the world and how we shouldn’t ignore the United Nations have pretty much vanished. I haven’t heard much from John Kerry, for example, ever since it was revealed that the people who he demanded be allowed to determine our foreign policy were in fact being paid by Saddam to oppose us.
“But we shouldn’t have gone to war with this tyrant after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, right?”
RIGHT! The terrorists were in Afghanistan, NOT Iraq. Or haven’t you yet noticed? It’s obvious GWB hasn’t, but aren’t you two smarter?
Since you are after “tyrants,” which one is NEXT? It’s not like we don’t have several of them to choose from.
MAYBE, it should be a LEADER who violates his own Constitution, which he swore to uphold? You know: The guy who’s spying on everyone, appointing inept cronies, and spending the country into oblivion! You know: GWB.
In response to #18: there’s just no getting through to Liberals. More information comes to light about terrorist training facilities in Saddam’s Iraq, and the response is still “The terrorists were in Afghanistan, NOT Iraq.” And he ends his statement with yet another variation on the Liberal favorite, “George Bush is the REAL enemy.”
#14
There has to have been a way to dismantle the Hussein regime without the deaths of 30,000 Iraqis (Bush’s figure) and more than 2,000 Americans.
Well, we already pretty much asked him nicely and since we know offering to suck his cock even more wouldn’t have worked…..
#18
So now protecting the U.S. violates the Constitution? Brilliant. Funny how there’s a double standard for liberal ass clowns like your sweet lord BJ and Republicans.
Since you are after “tyrants,” which one is NEXT? It’s not like we don’t have several of them to choose from.
Name the one who is in violation of 17 UN Resolutions to disarm, who has aggressively invaded neighboring countries, and who is globally believed to be developing weapons of mass destruction.
MAYBE, it should be a LEADER who violates his own Constitution, which he swore to uphold? You know: The guy who’s spying on everyone…
Yup, and his Black Helicopters are even now circling, circling, circling, waiting to whisk all of us to the secret death camps in the Pacific Northwest.
Funny how the left goes into histrionics that Bush has made the NSA conduct perfectly legal wiretaps into people communicating with terrorist groups… but when Clinton used the FBI, the IRS, and private investigators to harass domestic political opponents, their attitude was “it’s hardball politics, deal with it.” I guess leftists think people who question Bill Clinton were bigger threats than Al Qaeda.
It’s just more proof that you can’t trust Liberals to run the country or to recognize the obvious. I never bought the notion that secularists and jihadists would not work together. There’s and old axiom; “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Such has been the common ground between Tyrants like Saddam and the jihadists. To spell it out for you Liberals it means that since both were anti-American they were willing to work together against us. The fact that Libs/Dems don’t recognize such a simple tenet, that their Presidential candidates don’t understand such a simple tenet, shows that they are not equiped to run our country or any other!