Sorry if you feel lost due to cultural metaphors...But what part you did not understand??? I think i have asked questions in clear concise English....
Let me try again....Gambit sir suggested that its Naive to think that US invaded Iraq because of OIL...and i asked if not OIL..if not WMD then what??? On that he suggested that WMD does not mean a bomb it also means capacity to make a bomb...So i replied back that it is unfair to call people naive because if this was the reason behind Iraq invasion then why the heck US govt did not sell this argument and blamed Intelligence Agencies for mis-information...In other words if what he is saying is truth(though i have doubts) then Govt of US did not do a good job in explaining their reasons for Iraq Invasion...that is where i used metaphor of US govt..acting like a newly married indian bride(know for shyness)..Is this clear concise English or you still think that language barrier is stopping us from a meaningful discussion??
There were multiple reasons for the U.S. to take out Saddam. The WMD aspect was only one. but it was used as the main reasons to go in. So naturally that is the main item that anti invasion people use to rail against the U.S.. The U.S. defiantly got it wrong on the nuke program and chemical weapons. Though there were a few chemical munition remnants found. nothing that was after the gulf war. One of the reasons that the U.S. got it so wrong is Saddam himself.
in interviews after his capture. Saddam confided that it was becuase of Iran that he purposely led the world believe he still had WMD. He believed that Iran had it's eye on parts of Iraq. And he believed that the U.S. would not invade Iraq.
It was also believed that Saddam had ties to terrorist groups.
The Truth About Saddam and Terrorism
by Christopher Holton
03/21/2008
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had extensive ties to terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, according to an official report published by the Pentagon’s Institute for Defense Analyses and released through the Joint Forces Command.
That report, Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents, came up with some startling revelations in its 59 pages:
• Saddam’s Iraq trained terrorists for use inside and outside Iraq and in 1999 sent 10 terrorist-training graduates to London to carry out attacks throughout Europe.
• Saddam’s Iraq stockpiled munitions (including explosives, missile launchers and silencer-equipped small arms) at its embassies in the Middle East, Asia and parts of Europe.
• In September of 2001, Saddam’s Iraq sought out and compiled a list of 43 suicide-bomb volunteers in a “Martyrdom Project.”
• The report contains language from a captured Iraqi document which references an attempted assassination of Danielle Mitterand, wife of French President Francois Mitterand, by car bomb.
• The report’s authors describe Saddam’s Iraq as a “long-standing supporter of international terrorism” including several organizations designated as international terrorist organizations by the US State Department.
• Among the organizations that captured Iraqi documents indicate were supported by Saddam’s Iraq were
Fatah-Revolutionary Council (Abu Nidal Organization). (Author’s note: Abu Nidal was generally considered the world’s most dangerous terrorist in the late 1980s.)
Palestine Liberation Front (led by Abu al-Abbas). (Author’s note: Abbas was the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking and the murderer of American Leon Klinghoffer.)
Renewal and Jihad Organization, which the Iraqi documents describe as a “Secret Islamic Palestinian Organization” that “believes in armed jihad against the Americans and Western interests.”
Islamic Ulama Group, a radical Islamist group in northern Pakistan.
The Afghani Islamic Party, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. (Author’s note: Hekmatyar is an Afghan mujahideen warlord who is worked with Osama Bin Laden during the 1990s. US intelligence agencies have lost track of Hekmatyar, but believe that he was trying to join Al Qaeda in 2002 when he released a video message calling for armed jihad against the United States. Reports from BBC-TV and CNN claim that Hekmatyar helped Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2002.
Islamic Jihad Organization (Egyptian Islamic Jihad). This is perhaps the most startling revelation in the report. Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded and led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, now Al Qaeda’s co-leader. The group is most infamous for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Zawahiri is known to have worked in the Al Qaeda organization since its inception, while he was still leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in fact. Al Qaeda was started around 1989 and Zawahiri is said to have been a senior member from its earliest days. He was present in Afghanistan with Bin Laden at the time and later he was in Sudan with Bin Laden until being expelled in 1996 and eventually returning to Afghanistan. In 1998, Zawahiri formally merged Egyptian Islamic Jihad with Al Qaeda and has served as co-leader of Al Qaeda ever since. Iraq’s relationship with Egyptian Islamic Jihad was so close that captured documents indicate that Iraq was able to request that the group hold off on operations against the regime in Egypt in 1993.
In other words, Saddam’s Iraq had a longstanding relationship with the co-leader of Al Qaeda.
Captured documents show that Saddam’s Iraq was training non-Iraqis in Iraqi training camps a decade before Operation Desert Storm, including fighters from the following nations: Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Eritrea, and Morroco.
A captured memorandum shows that Saddam’s Iraq had an agreement with an Islamist terrorist group to conduct operations against Egypt during the first Gulf War.
A detailed, captured document from 1993 “illuminated how the outwardly secular Saddam regime found common cause with terrorist groups who drew their inspiration from radical Islam.”
In January 1993, as the American military’s humanitarian mission was begun in Somalia, Saddam directed that Iraq “form a group to start hunting Americans present on Arab soil, especially Somalia.” Interestingly, Osama Bin Laden was setting up identical operations at the same time.
Saddam’s secret intelligence service (IIS) hosted 13 conferences in 2002 for various terrorist groups.
Captured Iraqi documents say that the IIS issued passports to known members of terrorist groups.
Saddam’s Iraq had close ties and provided funding to Hamas, the Palestinian jihadist organization. Captured documents indicate that Hamas offered to carry out attacks for Saddam’s Iraq in return for his support. In fact, Hamas representatives informed the Iraqis that the organization had 35 armed cells around the world hidden among refugees, including in France, Sweden and Denmark.
Saddam’s IIS manufactured bombs in the early 1990s for terrorist Abu Abbas to conduct attacks against American and other interests. Three instances of these bombs failing are evidently the only thing that prevented terrorist attacks against these interests:
“A bomb intended to destroy the American ambassador’s residence in Jakarta, Indonesia failed.”
“Bombs designed to destroy the American Airlines office and Japanese embassy in the Philippines exploded prematurely and damaged only the front of the office, while killing one and wounding another of the terrorists transporting the explosives.”
Saddam’s Iraq carried out terrorist attacks on members of humanitarian organizations operating in the Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq, including Doctors Without Borders, Handicap International and UN-affiliated organizations.
The IIS was willing to reach out to jihadist terrorist groups, including those known to be affiliated with Al Qaeda. This includes the “Army of Muhammad” in Bahrain, which had threatened Kuwaiti authorities and had plans to attack American and Western interests.
There is still more reasons including coming to the defense of the Shia's that had rose up against Saddam believing the U.S. would finish Saddam off during the first gulf war. The U.S. caved in to international pressure and stopped pursuing Saddam's forces. this resulted in the Shia's being massacred. The U.S. shouldn't have allowed that to happen.
