The Absurd Report

This article is not typical of Samantha Burns site which consists of mostly humourous material but hopefully should be worth the read.

Some people still don’t get it. The Iraq war did not happen because Iraq was involved with 9/11. The war happen because 9/11 ‘woke many people’s eyes’, and they realised that they cannot let a threat build to the point of biting everyone in the arse. Bush said Saddam was a threat and did not say he was involved with 9/11.

Everyone believed Saddam had WMD. In fact, he did, around 500 found thus far; they were old stock, though, so I guess they “don’t count”. Saddam had invaded another country and executed hundreds of thousands of his own people. If he cares that little about his own people how do you think he feels about the US, which he swore as his enemy?

He tried to assassinate former president, George Bush Senior (isn’t that an act of war?), and he supplied money to Palestinian families of the terrorists who suicide bombed against Israel. This was to ensure that the families were rewarded once the bombings took place and they’d killed both children and adults in pizzerias and busses, often targeting children specifically to create the biggest “shock” effect.

Further, he actively aimed and shot at planes patrolling the no fly zone (yet somehow this isn’t an act of war too), and he continuously thumbed the inspectors. Documents have shown that the moment sanctions collapsed, he planned to pursue WMDs again. Additionally, sanctions were about to collapse because he had bribed the UN through his oil for food program. His pursuit of yellow cake was, in fact, real despite the faux investigation.

And RNC chairman Ken Mehlman adds….

The Democrats claim going into Iraq was a divergence from the war on terror. But Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri don’t see it that way, Mehlman said.

“They recognize it as a central front in the war on terror, and they said their goal is to use it to establish an Afghanistan sitting in between Iran and Syria, on the second largest oil reserves,” Mehlman said. “They understand it would send the same message that was sent in Mogadishu and Beirut,” where American forces withdrew after being attacked. “So while Democrats may be confused about Iraq’s centrality to the war on terror, the enemy’s not; and America’s leaders should not be.”
Mehlman said the enemy is not a country like Nazi Germany was, but an ideological movement empowered by technology.

“So on their point that Iraq was not responsible for 9/11, Nazi Germany was not responsible for Pearl Harbor; but President Roosevelt was smart enough to understand that we faced then an ideological enemy that was united by a common purpose of defeating freedom,” Mehlman said. “And so if you believe that, then waiting for Germany to attack us wasn’t smart. Instead, you wanted to take on the enemy on your terms, and your timetable, in their space. That’s what we did in Iraq.”