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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
To put this one differently, more than 500 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq to date. Is there any plausible situation in which Hussein would have done anything to kill that many Americans? No. (Which is not to say that we should ignore others he might have killed.)
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Dissent.
All it would have taken was Saddam sponsoring one lousy terrorist with pilot training. Or wearing a jacket by Dupont in any major city. Or one capable of buying a vehicle and some fertilizer. WMDs not even necessary.
I'm not saying Hussein DID sponsor Al Qaeda, or any other outfit that targeted Americans, because that link hasn't been established, whatever the administration might say.
But that's
not to say that Saddam wasn't fully capable of arranging for the killing of Americans, and after Gulf War I, he always had motive as well. If he would have scored more points among his people by doing so, I believe he would have happily given up sponsoring suicide bombers targeting Israel in favor of those targeting the U.S.
So I would think it quite plausible.
Speaking of Iraq, NBC fucking News was trying so hard to tie all its themes together tonight. Bush! Kerry! Vietnam! Hippies! Iraq! A generation divided all over again! Except they carried their analogies too far. Iraq, 500 dead. Vietnam was what, 50,000?
