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Thursday, February 13, 2003 Iraq & Al Qaeda, againPowell was so unconvincing last week about the connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda that I almost changed my mind about the war. Inspectors aside, Bush and his arrogance aside, war in Iraq is justified if Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. There's a lot of superficial evidence that Al Qaeda does work with Baghdad, but the White House can't come up with solid proof. Why? To me that's the most important question. If Bush thinks he can use other reasons to invade Iraq and just let the world trust that the invasion is an essential part of the "war on terrorism," well, that's arrogant. (And poor leadership. He deserves all the trouble he gets with NATO, frankly.) If he knows damn well that Iraq had nothing to do with the World Trade Center attacks -- which he might know, because what else has the CIA been working on all this time? -- then this is a war of convenience, an excuse to finish his daddy's work and to gain sway over some oil-rich countryside. Still, as long as Iraqi exiles are so emotionally in favor of ousting Saddam, most of us at Radio Free Mike have trouble siding with the International ANSWER-organized protesters who keep flooding Market Street in San Francisco. But the Bush administration is handling this whole thing, predictably, with ham fists. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:17 PM | |
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