In other news, Jesus and Elivis are going to be releasing a cover of the 'Rocky Racoon' by the Beatles in August and it's tipped for Christmas number one in Nepal.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

JUL 16, 2005 08:59 AM

Have you been asleep these past two years, stock? This has been THOROUGHLY de-bunked over and over again.

prolegomenist

I'm lost

May 2005

JUL 16, 2005 09:02 AM

Subrosa said:
Have you been asleep these past two years, stock? This has been THOROUGHLY de-bunked over and over again.

no, no, this abc/liberal media link perpetuates the myth.

Akrasia

Ireland

August 2004

JUL 16, 2005 09:14 AM

Clutching at straws is the new official sport of the republican party.

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

JUL 16, 2005 09:19 AM

Akrasia said:
Clutching at straws is the new official sport of the republican party.

Hey, don't look at me, I proposed sexual promiscuity as the new sport, but then they kicked me out and cut up my membership card.

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

JUL 16, 2005 02:14 PM

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_07/006733.php

So once more, for those with short memories, here's what the 9/11 Commission concluded:

Around [March 1997] Bin Ladin sent out a number of feelers to the Iraqi regime, offering some cooperation. None are reported to have received a significant response.

....In March 1998, after Bin Ladins public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin....Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and Bin Ladin or his aides may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban.

....But to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship.

And that's it. Both Saddam and Osama hated the United States. They had a couple of tentative conversations that never led anywhere. The last ones were in late 1998 or early 1999, and by the time the war started, the fundamentalist Sunnis of al-Qaeda and the secular Baathists of Iraq hadn't so much as exchanged notes for four years. More details here, if you're interested.

attn_ho

Brooklyn, NY

February 2004

JUL 16, 2005 02:34 PM

thanks s5, i was just about to post that. now i can look at more suicide girls!

waldo

I'm lost

June 2004

JUL 16, 2005 03:38 PM

stock's getting desperate

SaucisseDanseuse

Italy

March 2005

JUL 17, 2005 01:29 AM

bullshit, pure and simple. and a bit smelly.
the enemy of your enemy doesn't really have to be your friend. period.

FridgeMagnet

Chicago, IL

November 2004

JUL 17, 2005 01:33 AM

Akrasia said:
Clutching at straws is the new official sport of the republican party.

Can we for purposes of this thread make clear that Stockula is not the voice of the Republican party? Please.

life_returns

Oakland, CA

April 2003

JUL 17, 2005 01:47 AM

loudog1

Newport Beach, CA

December 2003

JUL 17, 2005 01:54 AM

Actually the Wall Street Journal in 2005 has an article showing the obvious connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda..

Saddam and al Qaeda

Messrs. Hayes and Joscelyn raise, with good reason, the question of why Saddam gave haven to Abdul Rahman Yasin, one of the men who in 1993 helped make the bomb that ripped through the parking garage of the World Trade Center. They detail a contact between Iraqi intelligence and several of the Sept. 11 hijackers in Malaysia, the year before al Qaeda destroyed the twin towers. They recount the intersection of Iraqi and al Qaeda business interests in Sudan, via, among other things, an Oil for Food contract negotiated by Saddam's regime with the al-Shifa facility that President Clinton targeted for a missile attack following the African embassy bombings because of its apparent connection to al Qaeda. And there is plenty more.

Don't forget that one of the tactics of the far left is that if they say something enought times that the feeble minded will believe it.