Posted by shar on March 22, 2003, at 23:30:24
In reply to Re: Iraq and Al Queda » shar, posted by beardedlady on March 22, 2003, at 9:48:49
BL:
>I'm with J.Brown on this one.
........I wasn't trying to sway you one way or the other (or J.Brown, either).
........Please remember that I was responding to your response to Syringchalet, in which you said (in essence) what does 9/11 have to do with invading Iraq?
.........My response was an attempt to explain how people began to see the two as tied together.
........Not that it should be tied together, or shouldn't be, just trying to paint a picture of what happened, how the lines got blurred, etc.
........I will say that your response to Syr. seemed a little...well, I can't think of the word. It's when you know something (like you probably knew already how come people equate the war with Iraq as revenge for 9/11) but act like you don't (it's a word that starts with non- I think but it is not nonplussed). And your response to Syr. would make one believe that you didn't understand how people came to believe that the war with Iraq was about 9/11 (if it was about Al Queda why aren't we bombing Saudi Arabia), when there's more to it than that (and I figured you knew there was more to it), but I thought I'd try to elucidate (for whose benefit I no longer know) the 'more to it' part.
> It's not that I don't believe it, but I believe his aid is less significant than our role in terrorism.........and I was responding to your question to Syr., not trying to say what was right/wrong or significant/insignificant, or even state a position, etc.
>Where is our responsibility?
....Tho' this is off topic from what my post was about, I believe our responsibility is to deal with what's happening now, since we can't go back in time and undo what's been done. BLaden and Al Queda need to be dealt with.
.......So does Hussein, imo.
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> In addition, the recent Supreme Court ruling that anti-abortionists can, once again, harass and ridicule and get the the faces of those who enter family planning clinics proves to me that we support terrorism much in the same way Saddam does. (Yes, I'm saying I think that some anti-abortion activism is terrorism. ).........I could not agree more. I cannot stomach what is allowed to take place against women who want legal medical services during an extremely hard time in their lives.
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> So I'm not condoning Iraq's support--merely saying there's a different reason for our Iraq attack. Terrorism doesn't fly with me.........and I wasn't condoning or condemning Iraq's support, merely trying to explain how people have come to believe that Hussein, Al Queda, BLaden and 9/11 are the reason we're at war.
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> Thanks for asking!.........my pleasure!
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> beardy : )>
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