There was no al Qaeda in Iraq when the USA invaded.
March 19, 2003
On this day in 2003, (click here) the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction....
David Kay was sent by "W" Bush to prove there were weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations assessment of no weapons of mass destruction was not appreciated by "W" Bush. Regardless the truth in all that, the USA was far more insightful and correct than the United Nations ever could be according to "W"'s administration.
The truth was the UN No Fly Zones and weapons inspectors worked!
When chief weapons inspector David Kay (click here) bluntly told the senate there were, in fact, no WMDs, he forced a humiliating U-turn in Washington and London. Now, in his first newspaper interview, he tells Julian Borger that the president must admit he got it wrong.
The fact is the people that propelled the USA into an illegal and immoral war into Iraq still populates the establishment GOP. They are liars with no respect for life.
Founded in October 2004, (click here) al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) emerged from a transnational terrorist group created and led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The original iteration of the group, Bayat al Imam, began in Jordan in the early 1990s. The group first associated with al Qaeda’s senior leadership in 1999 and fought alongside al Qaeda core and the Taliban during the U.S. strikes in Afghanistan in late 2001. Shortly after, the group transferred to Iraq in anticipation of the U.S.-led invasion. From 2003 through 2007, the group galvanized the Iraqi insurgency until its high-profile, divisively brutal tactics and failure to deliver meaningful gains to its nominal constituents led to a reversal in its popularity. The death of Zarqawi in 2006 has been followed with a series of successful counterterror strikes against his successors. Nonetheless, the group has proven resilient and though its activities are greatly diminished since its operational peak in 2007, it has proven still capable of carrying out high-profile attacks, particularly against soft targets....
The truth about Saddam is that his trial in Iraq never reflected any crime against an American president. It was for crimes against humanity. Saddam committed genocidal attacks on the Shi'ites of Iraq and the Kurds. Mass graves of Kurds and 50,000 dead Shia when they rose up when their food supply was cut off in the wetlands of Iraq. At the time, there were countries offering Saddam and his family a place to live out his exile. The war to obtain Saddam was never needed. It would not have been a war anyway, it would have been a military maneuver to remove Saddam to the world courts.
Then to realize the exact same Shia that fell prey to Saddam's particular type of hatred were attacked again by Saddam's replacement, "W." He sent American tanks into the center of worship of the Shi'ites in Iraq to kill holy men after closing their newspaper. Amazing.
To note: There were Shi'ites killed in defense of their mosque before it ended when the USA military was shamed of it's actions.
March 19, 2003
On this day in 2003, (click here) the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction....
David Kay was sent by "W" Bush to prove there were weapons of mass destruction. The United Nations assessment of no weapons of mass destruction was not appreciated by "W" Bush. Regardless the truth in all that, the USA was far more insightful and correct than the United Nations ever could be according to "W"'s administration.
The truth was the UN No Fly Zones and weapons inspectors worked!
When chief weapons inspector David Kay (click here) bluntly told the senate there were, in fact, no WMDs, he forced a humiliating U-turn in Washington and London. Now, in his first newspaper interview, he tells Julian Borger that the president must admit he got it wrong.
The fact is the people that propelled the USA into an illegal and immoral war into Iraq still populates the establishment GOP. They are liars with no respect for life.
Founded in October 2004, (click here) al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) emerged from a transnational terrorist group created and led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The original iteration of the group, Bayat al Imam, began in Jordan in the early 1990s. The group first associated with al Qaeda’s senior leadership in 1999 and fought alongside al Qaeda core and the Taliban during the U.S. strikes in Afghanistan in late 2001. Shortly after, the group transferred to Iraq in anticipation of the U.S.-led invasion. From 2003 through 2007, the group galvanized the Iraqi insurgency until its high-profile, divisively brutal tactics and failure to deliver meaningful gains to its nominal constituents led to a reversal in its popularity. The death of Zarqawi in 2006 has been followed with a series of successful counterterror strikes against his successors. Nonetheless, the group has proven resilient and though its activities are greatly diminished since its operational peak in 2007, it has proven still capable of carrying out high-profile attacks, particularly against soft targets....
The truth about Saddam is that his trial in Iraq never reflected any crime against an American president. It was for crimes against humanity. Saddam committed genocidal attacks on the Shi'ites of Iraq and the Kurds. Mass graves of Kurds and 50,000 dead Shia when they rose up when their food supply was cut off in the wetlands of Iraq. At the time, there were countries offering Saddam and his family a place to live out his exile. The war to obtain Saddam was never needed. It would not have been a war anyway, it would have been a military maneuver to remove Saddam to the world courts.
Then to realize the exact same Shia that fell prey to Saddam's particular type of hatred were attacked again by Saddam's replacement, "W." He sent American tanks into the center of worship of the Shi'ites in Iraq to kill holy men after closing their newspaper. Amazing.
To note: There were Shi'ites killed in defense of their mosque before it ended when the USA military was shamed of it's actions.
