In message , BUFDRVR
writes
Fred the Red Shirt wrote:
It doesn't sound like Baghdad was much of a safe haven for Nidal.

Don't try to insinuate Hussain was taking action to thwart terrorism.

There are insinuations that he backed al-Qaeda...

Meanwhile, it's certain that Nidal died in Iraq. (Couldn't have happened
to a nicer guy). It's alleged he died of terminal lead poisoning. Hard
to say how that proves that Iraq was a major terrorist threat.

(One man's "wicked murdering terrorist" is another man's "fleeing
persecuted refugee": cf. Brennan, Artt and Kirby in the US)

Nidal had
a safe haven in Baghdad for at least a decade. What happened in the end?
Hussain and he couldn't come to an agreement on a terrorist attack against the
U.S.? Hussain was attempting to silence an incriminating partner? Who knows?

By this argument, the UK needs to at least invade Boston and California.

Now that you're trying to cloud the isue by claiming Hussain was actually
fighting terrorism;

Oh, the only terrorists Hussein wanted to fight were those criminally
insane mental defectives who failed to recognise that Saddam Hussein was
the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Basically, anyone who was willing to fight his enemies was Good: anyone
whose actions might threaten him or draw too much heat down on him was
Bad. The moment Nidal became more of a liability than an asset, he got a
nine-millimetre lobotomy.

what about Abu Abbas? Better yet, just admit Hussain was
harboring, supporting and working with terrorists.

Harboured a few, but then so does the US according to us.

Life isn't simple or obvious.


None of this, by the way, is to imply that Hussein was a blushing
innocent, nor that deposing him and putting him on trial is less than
desirable.

But much worse has been tolerated in the past (cf. Libya for sponsoring
terror, or Argentina for torture and murder and attacking outside its
borders, for examples) and it remains a question worth asking: given the
cost in troops tied up, what made Iraq such a pressing threat?



--
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar I:2

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