The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace, Discussions of terrorism and <gasp> WMDs!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by The Shadoe

Doesn't it seem suspicious that he is so confident that these attacks would happen? He's not saying they might happen. He's saying he knows they will happen.

There was a major attack just 2 years prior and we never caught the person responsible for it. Anyone who thought there wouldn't be another attempt would have been completely naive.

Like I said, I'll grant that he probably had some knowledge of what was going on in various terrorist networks. He had intel. people just like we did, and obviously would have more inroads to get knowledge. But saying, "there's going to be another attack," is like saying, "they're going to build a new ride at Disneyland eventually." You don't need to be sleeping with Iger to guess that.

And I'll even bet he funded some. But I will never believe that he was anything more than minor player in that world. He was secular, and therefore on the outs with the most extreme of the extreme. And he had just invaded an Arab nation, hardly making him the doll of the region. Yes, he likely had some ties to terrorism, but "strong ties" worth comitting our resources to a long drawn out effort and taking them away from focusing on those that actually attacked us? Hardly.