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Has Iraq sponsored terrorism?
-Yes. Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship provided headquarters, operating bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups fighting the governments of neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as to hard-line Palestinian groups. During the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam commissioned several failed terrorist attacks on U.S. facilties.
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Essentially, Saddam sponsored terrorism against U.S. citizens and property.
Wait... you saying, that during the Gulf War, Saddam attacked US Facilities?! HOLY CRAP! Imagine that.. We attacked a country and they fought back! WOW! I think in the dictionary they call that war... not terrorism
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Was Saddam involved in the September 11 attacks?
- There is no hard evidence linking Saddam to the attacks.
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Essentially, little or no evidence doesn't conclusively mean Iraq is or isn't involved. It just means we have no evidence. Don't read into it.
Uh... yes it does. What your doing is called spin... Until you prove it, you can't conclude it.
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Does Iraq have ties with al-Qaeda?
- Many experts say there’s no solid proof.
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See above.
Many experts say there’s no solid proof.
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What evidence does the administration offer?
- Some Iraqi militants trained in Taliban-run Afghanistan helped Ansar al-Islam, an Islamist militia based in a lawless part of northeast Iraq.
- Al-Zarqawi had both planned the October 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and set up a camp in Ansar al-Islam’s territory to train terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.
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Nothing needs said here.
based in a lawless part of northeast Iraq... should I not read into this too... that maybe because it is lawless, no one stopped them. Does that mean Saddam supported them? No...
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What type of terrorist groups has Iraq supported?
- Saddam has aided the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (known by its Turkish initials, PKK).
- Iraq has hosted several Palestinian splinter groups that oppose peace with Israel, including the mercenary Abu Nidal Organization.
- Iraq has also supported the Islamist Hamas movement and reportedly channeled money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
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This speaks for itself too.
Wow... sounds like Saddam had some regional enemies. Hmmm... wonder what that has to do with the USA... a country 1000's OF MILES AWAY.
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Has Iraq ever used weapons of mass destruction?
- Yes.
+ In the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, Iraqi troops repeatedly used poison gas, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin.
+ Human Rights Watch reports that Iraq frequently used nerve agents and mustard gas against Iraqi Kurds living in the country’s north. In March 1988.
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Does Iraq still have WMD?...again, the fact we haven't found any yet DOES NOT mean he hasn't hidden them or shipped them out.
Spin-Spin-Spin... Spin-Spin-Spin...