Comment Re:Speaking as one of those absentee voters (Score 1, Insightful) 1797
(Iran is less of a threat in *that* regard as Alqueda is racialy oriented, and Iranians are not Arab)
Huh??? Boy do you need to do a little studying.
First Al Qaeda is not a racial organization, but a religio-political one. It started out as a CIA=funded group to help the Afghanis (they're not Arabs) rid themselves of the Soviets. They receive much support from the Pakistanis (not Arabs). They are known to have ties in Indonesia and the Phillipines (yep, you guessed it, not Arabs). And, get this, perhaps the biggest gap in your logic, reports indicate that Al Qaeda (and specifically the 9/11 guys) did receive support from Iran; the same reports have still failed to find any significant Al Qaeda-Iraq link.
Iraq was unprovoked. Go to the CIA site and check out Duelfer report, or go to your bookstore and pick up the 9/11 report, or just listen to what our own government is now saying. No ties, no weapons, we were horribly mislead, and it appears that the misleading was totally willful.
Huh??? Boy do you need to do a little studying.
First Al Qaeda is not a racial organization, but a religio-political one. It started out as a CIA=funded group to help the Afghanis (they're not Arabs) rid themselves of the Soviets. They receive much support from the Pakistanis (not Arabs). They are known to have ties in Indonesia and the Phillipines (yep, you guessed it, not Arabs). And, get this, perhaps the biggest gap in your logic, reports indicate that Al Qaeda (and specifically the 9/11 guys) did receive support from Iran; the same reports have still failed to find any significant Al Qaeda-Iraq link.
Iraq was unprovoked. Go to the CIA site and check out Duelfer report, or go to your bookstore and pick up the 9/11 report, or just listen to what our own government is now saying. No ties, no weapons, we were horribly mislead, and it appears that the misleading was totally willful.
