It's not what you know, but what you can prove!

[Quotox]

Kestra, I can tell you right now you will believe what ever you want. The administration has said several times that there is no connection between the events of 9/11. After a poll came out that said a majority of Americans thought there was a connection between 9/11 and Sadaam, the President specifically in January at a press conference said there was no connection to the events of 9/11 and Saddam.

Saying that does not mean that there is no connection to Iraq and the war on terror or Al Qeada and Saddam Hussein. If you simply look at Saddam's financial support of terrorist organizations and homicide bombers, his granting of asylum to terrorists, providing them safe harbor within Iraq and use of military intelligence and expertise to aid other organizations, then he has the appropriate connections. BTW, These are connections he had with Al-Qeada. These are things that have nothing to do with 9/11 but have everything to do with the war on terrorism that began on 9/11.

Al-Qeada is not like fighting a centralized government. Its cells or franchises of terrorist organizations that work for a common cause. Many members trained in Afghanistan in the last decade with Bin Laden, but many more did not and have received subsequent help through other paths. Furthermore, this is not an organization that has a limited intelligence or wherewithal to conduct only one operation at a time. They are intelligent. Many of there leaders are university educated (look at the 9/11 hijackers dossiers) and are bright folks. They understand the use of multifront tactics and are not unsophisticated in the battle that they are warring. So aiding 'Al-Qeada' does not mean you have a direct link to the events of 9/11.

Furthermore, this was a premptive war. That was the big complaint of everyone in the wold and the part of the Bush doctrine. We were no longer going to wait for countries who supported terrorists to strike against us. We were going to address those places. Every left leaning, anti-war activist, bitched and moaned about this war for that reason. Now, for some reason they forgot that and are looking for 9/11 as justicification. No one is saying that Iraq was 9/11... the fear was it was a country that was going to lead to something much worse than 9/11.

Finally, I think its funny you use the quotes you do, because none of them say what you think they do.