Ah, so now the tune is being changed from WMD to terrorists? Besides Saddam’s giving money to the families of palestinian suicide bombers, which has nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, there has never been any evidence of Al-Qaeda terrorists working with Saddam. Powell admitted as much this year, but now that there is a power vacuum in the region, of course there are a gazillion crazy AQ wackos all waiting to blow up the US.
On January 8, 2004, Powell conceded that despite his assertions to the United Nations last year, he had no “smoking gun” proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda. “I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection,” Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/2344058
The removal of Saddam from Iraq was a stabilizing factor int he region
Would you care to explain how this is so? Now all the ethnic groups in Iraq are at each other’s throats, and the situation is far less controlled than in the Saddam-era. In fact, without a strong Iraq, a resilient and rising Iran will be forthcoming.
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