In the _Wall Street Journal_ for 29 September, 9/11 widow Debra Burlingame defends President* Bush's invasion of Iraq, declaring that Saddam Hussein did so have ties to Osama bin Laden. She offers as evidence:
"Saddam . . . was not responsive to a 1996 request by bin Laden for safe haven in Iraq".
"[I]n 1998 . . . Richard Clarke worried that bin Laden would 'boogie to Baghdad'" if driven from Sudan by Clinton's campaign against him there.
Well. Osama asked for help and Saddam ignored him. And somebody speculated that Osama might ask again. Yeah, pretty devastating evidence.
People have a hard time sorting things out because they think of Saddam and Osama as being "on the same side", apparently because they come from sort of the same culture, or race, or something (they don't really have religion in common -- Saddam is about as much a Muslim as Ronald Reagan was a Christian).
Much in the way that people often puzzle over why neo-Nazis and the Klan rarely have anything to say to one another. They fail to see that a secular racist group that wants an all-powerful national government busy conquering the world has little in common with a Christian racist group that wants a feeble national confederacy that shuts the world out.
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