Osama and Saddam

Authored by Michael Pate on July 11th, 2003 at 4:13 PM

Washington launched its illegal war against Iraq based on a two-pronged lie. It claimed Iraq had amassed vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that posed an imminent threat to the American people. It simultaneously claimed to have �bullet-proof� evidence that the regime of Saddam Hussein had forged close ties with the Al Qaeda movement and was prepared to place �weapons of mass destruction� (WMD) in the hands of the Islamist terrorists to carry out an attack even more terrible than that of September 11, 2001. The aim was to terrorize the American people into supporting a war of aggression and intimidate the widespread opposition to the US launching a �preventive� attack on an impoverished nation. - Bill Vann

Through an unusual set of circumstances, I have been given documentary evidence of the names and positions of the 600 closest people in Iraq to Saddam Hussein, as well as his ongoing relationship with Osama bin Laden. I am looking at the document as I write this story from my hotel room overlooking the Tigris River in Baghdad. - Gilbert S. Merritt

Update(July 12): Now Matt Kelley offers this. What does “no clear link” mean? They didn’t go to social events together? As I seem to recall (and it would seem that the major media does not), it was not about African Uranium. It was not about Osama Bin Laden. It was about 12 years of purposefully violating United Nations sanctions. How quickly they forget.