Do you think that SADDAM was helping terrorists before we overthrew him?
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AS MUCH AS THE REPUBLICANS IN HERE WISH TO BELIEVE IT, THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN 9/11 AND IRAQ.\n\nBIN LADEN EVEN SAID THAT SADDAM WAS AN INFIDEL.
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lol, you must be an idiot if you think you will get a straight forward answer.  I must be one also, because I keep asking simple questions expecting answers, but all I get are the same run around answers that don't apply to the question.\n\n\n****  Answerman*** Saddam had known ties to terrorists.  You are saying what you are saying because the left wing news media likes to put these little personal twists into the stories.  They say things like, 'Although there Al Queda has known ties to Saddam, the relationship is unknown'.  Well, I guess we should believe it to be harmless.  Maybe they are just all drinking buddies, or maybe they play chess together.  Lets assume the best.  Lets not assume that since they both hate America, and that they both murder people on a daily basis, that their ties can have anything to do with terrorism.\n\nStart using your brain.  God gave us all one, liberals just just elect not to use it.
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OMG are you serious!!!! Saddam killed people of his own country if they blinked wrong. i am really praying for you cause you are definetly not the sharpest tool in the shed and its people like you who should move to canada and never come back saddam was an evil man and killed innocent people just to see how many ways he could!!!!I wish people like you would open thier eyes and see wat is real.
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Wholly unjustifiable.\n\nWe went to war for the wrong reasons. Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Iraq had no WMDs left. Iraq posed no threat to the west. Iraq had nothing to do with international terrorism. By the time the politicians started trying to justify the war in terms of regime change and bringing democracy, you know it should never have happened.\n\nIf we go to war with Iraq simple to get rid of a dictator, surely we should have to do the same in every other dictatorship in the world today, just to be consistent?\n\nThe effect of the war has been to ruin the infrastructure of the country, open the country to factional insurgency, open the country to international terrorism and lower the standard of living and personal security for the average Iraqi.\n\nAnd what have we gained? Budding democracy that nobody asked for and that the Arab mentality does not comprehend?\n\nI work on the reconstruction side of things in Iraq, and can confirm that most of the money ear-marked for reconstruction has simply been diverted into providing security for those trying to implement the reconstruction. Many of those reconstruction projects that have been completed are simply destroyed by the insurgents as soon as they have been completed.\n\nSo what have we achieved? We've destroyed a country. We opened it up to international terrorism. And the war has resulted in the deaths of over 3,000 coalition servicemen, over 50,000 Iraqis and 369 contractors.\n\nIf Saddam Hussein is facing the death penalty for the number of deaths he was responsible for by illegal actions, then in my opinion we should similarly hang George W Bush and Tony Blair too.
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No, we are not focused on this, and we should be.  We started out looking for him, and then we started wasting time in Iraq.  We should have focused on finding him until we got him instead of creating terrorists in Iraq.
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No, I don't think Saddam actually said that, or would support such a statement.  Nonetheless one of his attorneys is on record as claiming that he did.  It may be a PR stunt, or the attorney may have independently decided to defuse Saddam's expected outburst.  Lawyers are a weird bunch.
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The French are one of the main countries that were helping arm Saddam and making illegal oil deals with him while he was under sanctions from the UN.I think you should find out what your own country has been up to before you comment on mine.
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Absolutely not. He's turning a world against us, killing thousands of innocents (including our own troops), and lying out of his teeth in the name of his special interest puppet masters.\n\nWhew. That took a lot out of me.
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No.  He has started a war which has done more to swell the ranks of terrorist organizations than anything osama bin laden could have done.  How many iraqi "terrorists" were there before the invasion?  How many are there now?  The idea that the invasion of iraq has allowed us to fight terrorists in iraq instead of in america is retarded.  It has led to a great distrust of the US around the world, an example of the weakness of american forces which will be used by any future enemy, a stretch of military forces, a compulsion for other members of the "axis of evil" to acquire nuclear weapons and do so fast, an even greater dislike of america in the muslim world, an obvious example of the inabilities of our intelligence services, and a recruiting tool for all anti-america terrorist networks.  And thats not even considering the american and iraqi dead and the economic cost of the war.\n\nBoob: Ok, 3,000 people died on 9/11.  How exactly does starting a war which will likely claim 3,000 additional american lives as well as generate a greater hatred of the US across the muslim world, likely leading to further terrorist attacks, make that better?  And this is still assuming that Iraq will ultimately be a success story, a democracy friendly to america, which is anything but certain.
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I can't believe the number of people who seemingly want to take the side of Saddam.  As far as I am concerned, the man refused to follow the rules, he wanted to pretend he had them, so I think we should have acted as if he did.  I would rather be safe than sorry.  I have seen too many reports that show the people are greatful for our intervention.  I think there is still a possibility that there are weapons hidden somewhere.
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Regardless of how he got in there, we have to stand behind the decision.  There might not have been all the reasons stated, but they did find enriched uranium there, and other signs of helping terrorism.  We ousted a dictator by the majority of Iraq's request.  Else we wouldn't have gone in.\nSaddam should be dead already.  But he is a strong man, and it wouldn't surprise me much if somehow he got free, after all we have done.  \n\nThe military should have just shot him.  He is a mentally ill person with a great deal of power, and all of it is focussed on ruining western civilization as we know it.  If you don't believe that, then I'm not sure what I could say to convince you
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Eh? What did invading Iraq have to do with terrorism?\nIn fact, we've made it a breeding and practicing ground for terrorists.  They can now go there, practice making weapons and terror, and then use it against the west.  Saddam did not tolerate terrorists, and you never heard of a single suicide bomber or terrorist attack in Iraq while Saddam was in control.
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Wow, talk about bad timing on this question.  After the 500 or so raids last week after we got Zarqawi, we have turned up loads of documents that show that not only had Saddam been working directly with al-Quaeda, he had also been working with the Taliban.  The problem it, there are tens of thousands of documents and not many translators, so there is probably a whole lot more information coming.
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Yes, the United States of America and her allies must all pitch in and help rebuild Iraq. When Saddam Hussein first came into power, he was Mr. Nice Guy but once the 1980's came around, he went from being Mr. Nice Guy to becoming Mr. Not So Nice Guy and started to build palaces for himself and had his people live in ruins. Not that Hussein is no longer the President, Iraq is moving everyday towards democracy. If you want to hear the Truh of the Democracy taken shape in Iraq, I recommend that you watch a show titled The 700 Club.
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Wow...how generous of you :-)  anyway...When the USS Cole was bombed before 9/11, we knew then who was behind the attack.  We also knew they were planning something against the USA.  So, when 9/11 happened, we had every right to go into Afghanistan and where ever else to get Bin Laden and his terrorists.  Our government had intelligent info about all this and THEY knew Bin Laden did NOT conspire with Saddam.  I agree Saddam is a very evil man, but invading Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.  The Iraq situation is going to turn out worse than Vietnam.  Bush was so concerned with plotting against his daddy's enemy (before 9/11, he already had plans to invade Iraq, he just needed a reason to do so) it seems he has forgotten the real reason our soldiers are in the middle east.\nSo, 5 years later...where is the man responsible for killing our Americans on our soil?
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If you make a mistake, do you clean it up or do you let it be?\n\nWe created Iraq by giving him military support durning the Iraq-Iran war. \nWe also created Iran through giving a dictator our support to opress his people. \n\nWe are responsible for Saddam's military appetite and the Islamic government taking power in Iran. \n\nWe made a mess and we need to clean it up.\n\nCountry girl you are right, We were attacked by radical Islam on 9/11 and we are fighting radical Islam in Iraq. Yes they are connected!!!
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And it appears as if they found people just like Saddam to run things. I sent this link to my senators and congressmen/women as well as my state house leaders. I asked them if they were aware of this and if so, how we could allow this to stand. Unacceptable.\n\nAnd yes, I think it is past time to commit to this war, no matter if it was right or wrong to start, we are in it now, get it over with. Win it. Given our technology, hardware and numbers, the only thing we are lacking at the moment is balls.