Check out this bunch of silliness that was written in a weak attempt to downplay any connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq:
People who work on the Hill have meetings with lobbyists and interest groups all the time, sometimes this means Senator X is really a pawn of Industry Y, but sometimes it means that Senator X needs to tell Industry Y that he can’t help them out and wants to do it in a respectful way. When Adrianna was meeting with the FBI, that did mean she was in league with the Feds, but it didn’t mean that the Soprano family was. Tony met with Johnny Sack a whole bunch of times, sometimes to conspire with him, sometimes to tell him to fuck off. Neville Chamberlain was pursuing an unwise policy during his meetings with Hitler in Munich, but he wasn’t in cahoots with Hitler. Don Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein in the 80s to collaborate on their common interest in checking Iranian power, but that doesn’t mean they were working together in 2003 or 1991.
Dear Matt:
1.) Senators and Industry personnel are not terrorists and despotic dictators. Analogy dead.
BTW- I might note that ‘just the appearance of impropriety’ between congressman and industry was enough for almost the entire Democratic party to vote for CFR.
2.) Adrianna, Tony, Johnny Sack are fictional characters. Analogy dead.
BTW- The powers that be (in this case, a fictional FBI), have been up all three of their asses with a baseball bat and a flashlight. The same can not be said about the real life case you aretryingto analogize.
3.) Neville Chamberlain never engaged in an act of terrorism or gassed the populations of Newcastle, Carlisle and Windermere. Analogy dead.
BTW- Neville Chamberlain’s policy sounds alot like the Democratic party talking points regarding North Korea.
Matt’s fundamental problem here is that he is using analogies that don’t reflect reality. What is reported as fact, andt hat all of us except a few coneheads in the media elite understand, is that there was a relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. What makes this special is that both of these characters are trouble.
I don’t think that Iraq had much if anything to do with 9/11- and I would say they had NOTHING to do with 9/11 if I could speak in terms of certainties regarding the issue. But since you can know what you don’t know (as Cheney has stated over and over), you sort of have to stick to your gut instincts and the record of behavior for Al Qaeda and Saddam. And while this may confuse our liberal elites, I have a pretty firm idea of their intentions.