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Originally posted by WarChild
I don't understand why people think it's impossible that Saddam would support terrorists. Saddam and for instance Bin Laden never saw eye to eye on most things .. And yes, Bin Laden did hate Saddam's secular goverment ... Their hatred for American could easily have been or have become a uniting factor.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend? I think Saddam learned the hard way that it ain't such a good idea after his experience with Kuwait and the US once the Iran war was over
Not to mention that he's seen what Ben Laden is doing to the US, a country who helped him in his fight against the Soviets.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Bin Laden wants the end of the Western way of life .. It's foolish to believe he wouldn't consider using Iraq to obtain that goal.
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Yeah he's actually now using Iraq to obtain that goal. Ben Laden wants the end of moderate Islam. His extremist ideas where loosing ground, no government wanted anything to do with him and so he launched a desperate attack on 9/11 to guarantee his survival. Turns out he wasn't wrong. Thanks to him, the US managed to really piss off even the most moderate Muslims.
There was an interview with a British journalist who interviewed Ben Laden in 1996 and Ben Laden told him that his lifelong dream is to get the US to invade a ME country.