Jun 30 2005
The big lie
As I have noted on innumerable occasions, none of this evidence is cast-iron. But there is so much of it, it is simply not credible that Saddam had no links with al Qaeda, even if he was not personally involved in 9/11. And as for his links with other terror outfits, this is indisputable. Saddam�s Iraq was the principal training ground for Islamic terrorism.
The anti-western left has, over the course of history, fallen time after time for the propaganda of murderous tyrants who offered a handy platform for bashing the home society by providing the alibi of conscience. The investment of personal, political and moral identity that this represents is so immense that after a short while such gullible dupes are simply incapable of recognising reality even when it stares them in the face.
(The picture shows Donald Rumsfeld, special envoy to President Ronald Reagan, meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in December of 1983.)
Ironical (<-Bushism), huh?
