What I said was that Al Qaeda is not Iraq's army, nor is it the army of any country on earth. Although I guess you could make an argument that it was part of the armed forces in Afghanistan for awhile.
The US did defend Kuwait when Iraq invaded, at the request of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Hardly a vigilante action. You can't have it both ways. Either Al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq (as I think you would agree with), or they represent Iraq against Spain in some sort of retribution arrangement (which you also seem to agree with). Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > whoa! did I just hear you say Al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq! :) > > but seriously, didn't the U.S., a third party, rush into Kuwait > whenever Iraq invaded? > > > > On Jan 27, 2008 8:55 PM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oh - I didn't realize Al Qaeda was the army of, or officially >> represented, any sovereign country on the face of the earth? >> >> I'm not Robert. But it does appear that you are hijacking his logic to >> say that if my house got broken into you would advocate rouge >> vigilantism on my (Iraq's) behalf, conducted by someone (Al Qaeda) who I >> don't know, who doesn't represent me, and openly conducts criminal acts?. >> >> Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> >>> hmmmmm.....or, we could look at it another way in that they >>> participated in the invasion of a sovereign country and threw down the >>> gauntlet first. >>> >>> according to Robert's logic, if someone comes into your house, beats >>> you up and continues beating you and then suddenly quits and leaves >>> the house, you'll find it in your heart to say, "Ok, they did a bad >>> thing, but now they've stopped so I won't try for revenge" >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
