President Bush

[devonin]

Originally Posted by hayatewillown

They reside in Iraq.

Proof other than "The guys in the army say so"?

One of the largest criticisms from the UN about the American actions in Iraq was their complete inabilty to forge a reasonable link between Saudi and Egyptian terrorists who carried out the attack, and Iraq. (As a humourous aside, a political cartoon printed during the time America was trying to convince the UN to give its blessing to military actions in Iraq depicted Colin Powell standing in front of a display board with the words "Al-Qaeda" and "Iraq" on it, with the Q in each word circled, and the caption "And you can clearly see the connection between the two groups")

Bin Laden and Hussein were commonly on the record as dispising each other to the point of encouraging hostile actions against each other's organisations.

Hussein thought that Al-Qaeda were ignorant, picking fights against entirely the wrong targets, and Bin Laden felt that Iraq was basically a lapdog of the United States, for the degree to which western culture had infiltrated the country. (This is, incidentally from -US Government- released tapes and videos coming from Bin Laden, and other high up members of both Al-Qaeda and Iraq)

The best defense is a good offense.

So when the terrorist group takes an offensive stance, they are horrible attacking evil people, but when America takes an offensive stance, it's defending itself?

I'm sorry but I fail to see how a group of people working for -years- with dozens of people on the inside working to bring this about managing to hijack three planes, take down a building, and kill a few thousand civilians out of the 300 million people living in America constitutes a threat on the order of "We must obliterate them from the earth or they will destory us outright, and any amount of civilian death and damage is well worth it"

Nobody in their right mind would take a nuclear strike against a country that possesses enough nuclear weapons to destory all life on earth a few dozen times. And if you want to argue instead that these people are just not in their right mind, do you really think that overthrowing the government in a country that -at most- didn't actively seek out and destory that organisation is going to let that stop them in the slightest?