15th April 2003, 8:50 PM
Heck, the United States has closer ties to Saddam Hussein than Al-Qaeda does.
We backed him during the Iran-Iraq war with weapons, money, and such. The CDC was even nice enough to send anthrax to Iraq.
And while we're at it, the United States supported Osama Bin Laden and other Arab resistance movements when they opposed the USSR. So the United States also has "close" ties with Al-Qaeda.
Let's not forget that the United States is not innocent of supporting tyrants or making friends with shady characters (Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden being only two in a group that spans across the globe) in the face of what we see as bigger threats. From Saddam's twisted point of view, the United States is/was his #1 threat. If the United States is allowed to make friends with shady characters in the face of a perceived greater threat, why is it all of a sudden a terrible thing when someone else does it, other than the fact that we're biased against our enemy?
We backed him during the Iran-Iraq war with weapons, money, and such. The CDC was even nice enough to send anthrax to Iraq.
And while we're at it, the United States supported Osama Bin Laden and other Arab resistance movements when they opposed the USSR. So the United States also has "close" ties with Al-Qaeda.
Let's not forget that the United States is not innocent of supporting tyrants or making friends with shady characters (Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden being only two in a group that spans across the globe) in the face of what we see as bigger threats. From Saddam's twisted point of view, the United States is/was his #1 threat. If the United States is allowed to make friends with shady characters in the face of a perceived greater threat, why is it all of a sudden a terrible thing when someone else does it, other than the fact that we're biased against our enemy?