Author: FalconsLairFalconsLair Date: Mar 23, 2008 08:00
3/23/2008: Who the enemy is! An overview of the Iraq Perspectives
Project:
The Iraq war finished its fifth year last week. Thanks to a Pentagon
paper quietly released the week before, we are clearer about who the
enemy is.
The paper detailed just how deep into terrorism Saddam Hussein was.
The headline was made by an early leak that the report "found no
'smoking gun' " linking him to al-Qaida.
In the report, however, that line came right after one that said the
Pentagon's Iraq Perspectives Project, which reviewed 600,000 captured
documents, "uncovered strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam
Hussein to regional and global terrorism."
The paper also says, "Saddam supported groups that either associated
directly with al-Qaida . . . or that generally shared al-Qaida's
stated goals."
Smoking gun? More like smoking wallet. Hussein was sugar daddy to
terrorists of any stripe.
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