Originally posted by Emmanuel_Z
Saying 'Iraq had plenty to do with terrorism', without elaborating, is no argument. Jim, I expect more from you. As it's the basis of my elaboration, I'm not quite willing to go into the rest as long as you sufficiently expand on that.
I figured you were bright enough to be up on current times. I'll copy from a recent post as this has been discussed many, many times on here already:
Saddam Hussein gave sponsorship to the following terrorist groups within Iraq: the MEK, the PKK, and Ansar al-Islam, all having ties to al-Qaeda.
Saddam Hussein funded: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad, the largest terrorist groups in the world behind al-Qaeda.
Saddam Hussein sheltered: Abu Nidal, and his ANO terrorist group, Abu Abbas, and his PLF terrorist group, Abdul Yassin, a plotter of the 1993 WTC attack and al-Qaeda operative, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaeda operative.
** Credit goes to preemptingyou03, as this was copied from his most recent post **