Wow Kerry took the Florida primary!

[kandrathe]

{I posted this here because it didn't belong on the discussion on Christianity. :) I am responding to Jesters argument about repetitive results, leading to conclusions. }

1) Abu Abbas is given shelter in Baghdad.
2) Abu Nidal and the ANO is given refuge in Baghdad.
3) Complicity in supplying false passports to people like Ahmed Ajaj, and Ramzi Yousef.
4) Saudi airliner hijackers sheltered by Saddam.
5) Abu Musab al Zarqawi after being wounded by the US in his al Queda poisons training camp Afghanistan, gets his leg amputated in Baghdad.
6) Abu Musab al Zarqawi sets up a base, aided by Abu Wael, in Northern Iraq devoted to harrassing Kurds, but also training in use of posions like ricin, and cyanide.
7) Terrorist cells in Britain, France, and Spain are linked to Zarqawi and planning operations using poisons, and botulin toxins.
8) The evidence of the interviews of the two individuals by Jonathan Shanzer which his conclusion is that Abu Wael is Colonel Saadan Mahmoud Abdul Latif al-Aani of the Iraqi Secret Service (ISS / Mukhabarat).
9) The implications of the evidence contained on the intercepted communique of February, 2004.
10) Allegations and confirmations by detainees of the use of the facility at Salman Pak.
11) Importation of massive numbers of foreign fighters from Syria, with Syrian sponsored visas.
12) Links of the ISS to assassinations and attempted assassinations.

Was Saddam and Iraq's links to terrorism as compelling as those to Iran, or Syria or persons in Saudi Arabia? I would say no. But, still I see some room for the possibility that Iraq had links to al Queda. I think part of my skepticism is that I believe al Queda is really a morphing coalition of like minded Jihadists, where each individual may have many affiliations. I also can see the possibility that each of these affiliations is a separate Iraqi decision to further their State goals and does not indicate the trend that they are State sponsors of Terrorism. I believe though, that there is enough evidence to keep my mind open about the possibility that Iraq was complicit.