Kate Bennett wrote: > > the usa was not attacked by iraq...& the overthrow of saddam was on the > current administration's agenda before 9/11 ever happened...
Thanks, Kate, for pointing that out. Right after 9/11, one of the first thoughts from Cheney was "Great. Now we can finally go after Iraq." > & the opportunistic attempts (by king george II & his men) to link the two > is deeply insulting to the intelligence of many many people here in this > country & around the world... Yes. People everywhere were in deep mourning, and Cheney and Rumsfeld were focused on finally getting what they want. Is it any wonder I do not trust their motives? > oh, but now we are told there is new evidence of a link! osama has told iraq > to resist the attacks...this is certainly credible evidence...let's take > osama at his word... Osama is a very smart man. He knows exactly how to play the simple-minded Bushies. All accounts I've ever read say that he's never had any tolerance for drinking, womanizing, secular Saddam Hussein. He releases a tape in which he obliquely refers to Saddam, and the US government doesn't try to hold back this tape as it has others (out of a concern it's sending coded messages to sleeper cells) because this time it's more important to the administration that they prove that bombing Iraq is a good idea than it is protecting their own citizens. Again, no wonder I don't trust their motives. Osama and his successors will not need to do any advertising for recruits for generations to come. The US is playing right into his hands. I would much prefer that Osama be sought and brought to justice (not murdered outright because then he's a martyr, although I have a feeling he'll arrange that somehow anyway), that Afghanistan be made safe and rebuilt, and that US citizens be protected. It's appalling that the frontline protectors in this country (police, firemen, healthcare workers) have not been given the money yet by Congress to get the equipment and training needed to protect US citizens!!! And yet we're being set up as targets for retaliation!!! Something's very very wrong with that picture. If those things had been addressed, THEN I could tolerate (and possibly even trust) the claims being made about Iraq. Debra Shea
