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Originally Posted by pmayjr
A little side note that I'd like to point out here- It's kinda related and not really. When watching a National Geographic special about 9/11, and the CNN Special "In the Footsteps of Bin Laden" reinforced this- Saddam and Bin Laden aren't and never were working with each other. If Al Queda is in Iraq, it came after the U.S. invaded. Why?
When Saddam invaded Kuwait in '90 or '91, and there was a threat that Saudi Arabia would be next, Bin Laden went to the Saudi Govt/kingdom/head-honchos to offer him and his Mujahadin to fight off Saddam. They had successfully driven the Soviets out of Afghanastan, and now Bin Laden wanted to defend his homeland. The Saudis rejected his offer, and instead enlisted the U.S. to drive out the Iraqis, and that's what actually started Bin Laden's hatred for the U.S. He was pissed that his own country rejected his offer to defend it... and since we were the "defenders", we ended up being hated by him for that reason.
I bring this up, because there's so many people I hear that say Saddam and Al Queda or Saddam and Bin Laden are working together bla bla bla bla. They never worked together and the 2 I think are in different sects of iIslam as well. Isn't Bin Laden Sunni and Saddam Shiite? Wasn't that one more reason why Saddam had to rule with such an Iron fist? He ruled with the religious MINORITY, eventhough the country's majority was Sunni.
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You're right, except Saddam was/is Sunni and the majority are Shiite. Shiite's are much more fundamentalist than the Sunnis.
Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11; I feel our administration hoodwinked our country into backing the Iraq invasion. That said, Danzig is right on the money about the current situation-- we've been half-assing the Iraq thing all along (not the soldiers, of course, who are showing up and doing their jobs-- the people in charge of them). But I'm scared of what will happen to the region if we pull out as things are now-- destablize further? Massacres between Shiites and Sunnis? Women's rights going the way of the Taliban? I kind of feel like, we broke it; we bought it, you know? We started this for all the wrong reasons, but now I feel like we have to finish it, but not in the current fashion. As much because we owe it to the Iraqis now as because we owe it to ourselves. But where's the $$, the manpower, the leadership? Dear God, what a mess...