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um... no shit.
Osama and Saddam were ideological enemys.
Al Quedas goal is to unite the middle east under Islamic Law.
Osama hated Saddam (documented in interviews), because Saddam had advanced Iraq into a secular state. Saddam refused to give power to the clerics (obstructing the theocracy Osama wants) and brutally fought opposition from the Islamic fundamentalists.
So Osama needed Saddams secular goverment toppled. Al Queda couldn't do that alone; so they plotted and were successful at getting Bush to do it for them.
An intelligent administration guided by facts instead of ideology would have recognized the ploy, and not been baited.
bottom line:
Bush got played; owned so fucking hard by Osama.
Bush has done everything Osama predicted and hoped for.
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