1. Obviously, the Bush administration
along with both Houses of the United States Congress felt it was necessary to exercise the US's inherent right of individual or collective self-defence.
Now, do YOU feel it was
in accordance with the Charter[/b]? Probably not. However, both the Executive and Legislative branches of the United States DID. I think that supercedes your opinion. Sorry.
2. Again, I point you to the Czech report that Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague.
Prague Revisited The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away A sample for you from the article:
The background: On April 21, 2001, the CIA's liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in Prague was briefed by the Czech counterintelligence service (known by its Czech acronym, BIS) about an extraordinary development in a spy case that concerned both the United States and the Czech Republic. The subject of the briefing was Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the consul at Iraq's embassy in Prague.
The reason there had been joint Czech-American interest in the case traced back to the December 1998 when al-Ani's predecessor at the Iraq Embassy, Jabir Salim, defected from his post. In his debriefings, Salim said that he had been supplied with $150,000 by Baghdad to prepare a car-bombing of an American target, the Prague headquarters of Radio Free Europe. (This bombing never took place because Salim could not recruit a bomber.)
There's more, but suffice it to say that this source is not the only one that is continuing to follow an Iraq/A-Q link.
Like:
Terror fugitive Abu Abbas caught in Baghdad You remember him right?
April 15, 2003
Abbas, who is alleged by U.S. officials to have plotted the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, had been living in a Baghdad suburb under the protection of Saddam Hussein.
Well, if not him, maybe:
Baghdad confirms Abu Nidal dead Surely you remember Abu Nidal? The multiple gunshot wound suicide case in Baghdad?
Led series of worldwide attacks
Abu Nidal was one of the world's most wanted men.
For more than two decades he struck targets from Paris to Pakistan. His followers bombed American airliners, machine-gunned synagogues and assassinated a string of Palestinian moderates.
His most notorious attack was an assault on the ticket counters of an Israeli airline in Rome in 1985.
In that attack 18 people were killed and 120 wounded.
So, once again, perhaps the Bush Administration
along with both Houses of the United States Congress felt it was necessary "to combat by all means threats to international peace and security
caused by terrorist acts[/b]". Even to the point of removing those that support, encourage and harbor the actual terrorists.
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I actually used to think better of you as well. However, you've made it pretty clear to me you're just another US basher. You're not quite to the Blitz level, but I respect the effort you're putting into passing him.
Still, this comment of yours cuts me to the very quick. I shall drink a glass of fine Scotch, seeking solace to heal my wounded psyche. Or, maybe just because I like the taste.
