adelcrow wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 9:42am:




My argument is that it is a stupid question neither worth asking nor answering.


Don't be so precious, pick another forum if your feelings are so fragile, maybe sercret womens business would be more to your capabilities

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 10:18am:


The same could be said for the Iraq invasion.....Which was the point made by the OP!!!

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 10:18am:


The same could be said for the Iraq invasion.....Which was the point made by the OP!!!

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 10:45am:


Yep..the very same terrorist groups Saddam Hussein was doing a pretty good job of exterminating.
Now of course those terrorists run Iraq along with fundamentalist Islamic clerics.
In short the only terrorists in Iraq when we invaded were after Saddam Hussein and we gifted them an oil rich country.

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F-ck, you're delusional.

If the US invaded New Zealand, Australia would go in after them.

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 10:45am:


Yep..the very same terrorist groups Saddam Hussein was doing a pretty good job of exterminating.
Now of course those terrorists run Iraq along with fundamentalist Islamic clerics.
In short the only terrorists in Iraq when we invaded were after Saddam Hussein and we gifted them an oil rich country.

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2014 at 10:28am:


Wrong.

Iraq was thought to have al-Qaeda training camps within its geographical territory ... which it did, just inside its north-eastern border.

Very definitely Australia should not get drawn into any sort of combat situation in the Ukraine at the behest of America. Abbott would be just the one to tell them to get stuffed.

Closet gays like Howard and Rudd would never dare tell the Americans to go to hell ~ but Abbott would.

http://www.dupagepeacethroughjustice.org/lat021104.html

Evidence isn't there, officials in Europe say, adding that an attack on Hussein would worsen the threat of terrorism by Islamic radicals.

By Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times

PARIS -- As the Bush administration prepares for a possible military attack on Iraq that it describes as the next logical step in its war on terror, some of its strongest front-line allies in that war dispute Washington's allegations that the Baghdad regime has significant ties to Al Qaeda.

In recent interviews, top investigative magistrates, prosecutors, police and intelligence officials who have been fighting Al Qaeda in Europe said they are concerned about attempts by President Bush and his aides to link Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden's terror network.

"We have found no evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda," said Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French judge who is the dean of the region's investigators after two decades fighting Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorists. "And we are working on 50 cases involving Al Qaeda or radical Islamic cells. I think if there were such links, we would have found them. But we have found no serious connections whatsoever."

Even in Britain, a loyal U.S. partner in the campaign against Iraq, it's hard to find anyone in the government making the case that Al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime are close allies. In fact, European counter-terrorist veterans who are working with American counterparts worry that an attack on Iraq, especially a unilateral U.S. invasion, would worsen the threat of radical Islamic terrorism worldwide and impede their work.