The Lesser of Two Evils: Did We Unknowingly Help Iran and Al Qaeda?
I’ve been pondering the “Postwar Findings About Iraq” Phase II report from the United States Senate. The report states that there was no known link between Saddam Hussein and the terror organization Al Qaeda. I think we were played.
Now here me out on this. I’m not going to be placing blame on President Bush or anyone in our government. They were simply acting on the intelligence that we and other nations had gathered prior to 2003. Since then Bush has repeatedly confirmed that the intelligence was faulty. As White House press secretary Tony Snow said, there is “nothing new” here.
Were we all, including President Bush, played by our enemies? Were we unknowingly duped into ousting Saddam? I’m beginning to believe that this is the likely case. Al Qaeda’s leadership is a ragtag fleet of strategist and war gamers who have a very clear endgame. They want to put an end to the western culture, destroy non-believers, and create a world government based on Islam, known as a caliphate. Is it at all possible that Saddam Hussien was the lesser of two evils in the Middle East?
According to wikipedia Saddam believed in spreading Pan-Arabism, which is a secular movement for unification among the Arab peoples and nations of the Middle East. In other words he wanted to become the person who controlled the entire region. Al Qaeda and Iran have similar ambitions, but they want to spread Pan-islamism, the religious movement of reunification among all muslims in the world. Both movements were opposed to each other because they basically had the same goal.
Did Al Qaeda have the resources to plant false information about its own involvement in Iraq? Is it possible that Al Qaeda, not President Bush tugging at the American people’s emotions when we learned there might have been a possible link between Al Qaeda and Iraq? Isn’t that what a terror organization does? What better way for someone to lie about Al Qaeda’s involvement if it were coming directly from the mouth of an Al Qaeda informant.
This entire post deals with conspiracy theories and I have no information to back up my claims. Though it surely seems plausible…
1 Comments so far
1. J wrote on September 9th, 2006 at 2:34 am
If you’ll recall, the idea of WMDs fueled the runup to and beginning of the war. The Al Qaeda/Saddam connection was a very small part of the logic that got the ships out of port. Most sane people thought going into Iraq was the best option. Most sane people believe that the war has been a disaster. We’re there. We’re in a hell of a mess. What should we do now?
Additionally, Iran is shia, Al Qaeda sunni. They’ve never been in league. Never will be. In fact, if we’ll leave them alone, they’ll likely get back to oppressing their women and killing each other off.
Yeah, we were played. We were played by our own fear and dissidents like Ahmed Chalabi who exploited on our naivete and the neo-con’s skewed ideas about foreign policy.