Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

[rextorres]

Originally posted by Simeron:
Maybe Iraq didn't have direct ties to 9/11 and maybe they did. The FACT is, they had Al Q training camps in Northern Iraq. For all we know, some of the very people that crashed those plane into our cities were trained there before coming here. But the fact is, there were more of the same kind of people in those camps.

This is a huge mistruth that you hear from conservative pundits and believed by the people who listen to them but abandoned by everyone else. Even GW has backed of the Al Qaeda/Saddam connection.

The Northern "training bases" everyone refers to were in the Kurd no fly zone and run by a group called Ansar Al-Islam - they were not in a Saddam controlled area - and this group was commited to the overthrow of Saddam and were dedicated to bringing an Islamist state to Iraq: Fanatics yes Al Qaeda no.

The ones that FoxNews et. al. reported west of Baghdad were simply Iraqi military bases (you don't hear about these much anymore) not terrorist training camps.

Anyway the more likely culprits would be the Saudis but nothing will ever happen to them because we know the connection that GW has with those people.

[ May 26, 2004, 09:42: Message edited by: rextorres ]