Every so often it becomes necessary to combat the disinformation that we hear daily. More importantly, we need to fill the factual gaps left by the liberal media. It's not just what the media says that is important, but what they DON'T say. Remember they CHOOSE which items to focus on. A media outlet has hundreds of story possibilities. They sift through information collected across the world and DECIDE what to tell you. Here are some facts to frustrate and annoy the liberal dweebs who think Operation Iraqi Freedom was a mistake:
FACT: In 1985, the mastermind behind the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, Abu Abbas, was harbored and welcomed by the Iraqi regime.
FACT: In 1988, more than 5,000 Kurdish men women and children were massacred in the village of Halabja by Saddam Hussein in a vicious terror attack using weapons of mass destruction.
FACT: Iraqi intelligence documents dated from 1992 lists Osama Bin Laden as an Iraqi intelligence asset.
FACT: In 1993 a non-agression pact between Iraq and al-Qaeda was formed. This is important because it shows that the rift between secular and Islamic extremist is shrinking.
FACT: The Deputy Director of Iraqi intelligence confirms that Osama Bin Laden requested arms and training from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime.
FACT: In 1995, Iraqi intelligence officials met with Abu Hajer al Iraqi, a member of al-Qaeda.
FACT: In 1996, a phone call between al-Qaeda-supported Sudanese military officials and the head of Iraq’s chemical weapons program was intercepted by the NSA.
FACT: Abu Abdallah al Iraqi, a member of al-Qaeda, went to Iraq in 1997 to help in obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
FACT: In 1998, the Clinton administration’s justice department indicted Iraq for providing “assistance” to al-Qaeda’s weapons development program.
FACT: A senior Clinton administration counter terrorism official said that the U.S. government was “sure” Iraq had supported al-Qaeda chemical weapons programs in 1999.
FACT: In 2000, September 11th hijacker Khalid al Mihdhar was photographed with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Kuala Lumpur en route to a meeting at which the terrorist attacks of the USS Cole and the World Trade Center were planned and discussed.
FACT: Satellite images show al-Qaeda members traveling to a compound in Iraq in 2000, a compound financed in part, by the Iraqi regime.
FACT: September 11th, 2001: The World Trade Centers in the heart of New York City become ground zero for the worst terror attacks in American history. Attacks were carried out by members of al-Qaeda.
FACT: In 2002, senior al-Qaeda member, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, operated openly in Baghdad and received medical attention with the knowledge and approval of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Zarqawi’s new hobby was to kidnap and behead foreigners in postwar Iraq. This, the most stunningly obvious connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda is conveniently overlooked by the media.
FACT: Prior to the war in Iraq, it was suspected that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq harbored and supported Abdul Rahman Yasin, the Iraqi weapons expert who mixed the chemicals for the 1993 World Trade Center attack. This was confirmed in documents found in postwar Iraq in 2003.
These are but a few, unclassified instances of ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda. It’s little more than a semantics argument to claim that Iraq could be connected to al-Qaeda yet have nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11. Actions have consequences and we all know if the nations that were and are state sponsors of terror did their part to prosecute and arrest known terrorists instead of aid them, events like 9/11 would be impossible to carry out.
Until recently, it was not a partisan matter that Iraq and al-Qaeda had connections, President Clinton was among the most vocal critics of Saddam Hussein’s regime saying in 1998 that , “outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers, and organized international criminals” would be “more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.” He went on to say that “there is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.” President Clinton also reiterated the Iraqi regime’s role in the botched attempt to assassinate President Bush while he was visiting Kuwait.The most egregious flip-flop was that of counter terrorism official Richard Clarke. Yes, this is the same man who said that the U.S. government was “sure” Iraq had supported al-Qaeda chemical weapons programs in 1999, later said, in 2004, “There’s absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al-Qaeda, ever.” This bold-faced lie is all the more stunning considering that Mr. Clarke isn’t refuting the veracity of the intelligence he is denying it’s very existence!
Al Gore:
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Gore attacked the first Bush administration for disregarding Saddam Hussein‘s “brutal terrorism” and of ignoring Saddam’s “murderous ambitions”. Gore went on to make over a dozen specific references to Iraq-sponsored terrorism while citing a RAND corporation study that concluded that “an estimated 1,400 terrorists were operating openly out of Iraq.”Again, in 1992, Gore said that Saddam Hussein was a “major danger to the region and to U.S. interests.” and that he was “seeking technologies for weapons of mass destruction” in addition to offering “state payments to terrorists.”Now, comically, Gore rails against the Bush administration saying that “The evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama Bin Laden at all, much less give him weapons of mass destruction.”
A notorious Democrat flip-flopper, Wesley Clark said “Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda.” in 2002. Then, as a candidate for President, Clark stated, “there is no connection on that.”
Found this in some links over at Mark's Remarks...This is a gem:
