"Handing Iraq back to Al Qaeda
Funny someone should write "handing Iraq back to al Qaeda" when al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until the Republicans opened the door and let them in.
Bullshit.
TIMELINE: Zarqawi's road to perdition. - TIMENew Frontier After the fall of the Taliban, al-Zarqawi slips out through Iran to northern Iraq, linking up with local terrorism groups. He achieves global notoriety when Colin Powell names him in his February 2003 U.N. speech laying out the U.S.'s case for invading Iraq.
Your idea of "Bullshit" to rdean's post is that a lone man slipped into northern Iraq (Kurd territory, if I'm not mistaken) after Bush launches air and land attacks in Afghanistan?
What UTTER nonsense!
The POINT is that al Qaeda had nothing remotely resembling a foothold in Iraq while Saddam was in power because Saddam and his security forces brutally oppressed and suppressed and and all opposition to his one man rule within the borders of Iraq. If there was anything resembling resistance, it was in the Kurdish region. But they weren't interested in sharing power. They wanted their own nation which would encompass the Kurds who are living in a fairly widespread area in many countries, INCLUDING Turkey, which just so happens to be a US ally. That's another screw up of Bush as far as some of our allies are concerned because we've essentially given the Kurds a foothold in establishing self rule, and they will almost certainly finance insurgencies in other countries in the hopes of one day establishing a greater Kurdistan.
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