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"In what way were the US embargo and bombing of Iraq (which led indirectly to the death of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Iraqi children) and the bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceutical company (no evidence of manufacture of chemical or biological weapons ever found), DEFENSIVE strikes?" -- fulanodetal
Horseface also forgets that the Clinton administration cited an Iraq-al Qaeda connection in justifying the attack on the aspirin factory.
"Additionally, the indictment states that Al Qaeda reached an agreement with Iraq not to work against the regime of Saddam Hussein and that they would work cooperatively with Iraq, particularly in weapons development."
http://www.sinsofthehusband.com/OsamaIndictment.pdf
This charge was left out of a subsequent indictment, but Gore, Cohen, Berger and other members of the Clinton administration told the 9/11 Commission that they still believe the intelligence was correct concerning the connection. Richard Clarke also reiterated this connection in his book, "Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror":
"EMPTA is a compound that had been used as a prime ingredient in Iraqi nerve gas. It had no other known use, nor had any other nation employed EMPTA to our knowledge for any purpose. What was an Iraqi chemical weapons agent doing in Sudan? UNSCOM and other U.S. government sources had claimed that the Iraqis were working on something at the facility near Shifa. Could Sudan, using bin Laden’s money, have hired some Iraqis to make chemical weapons? It seemed chillingly possible."
The Clinton administration made an explicit connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, yet liberals such as Horseface never call them on it. The Bush administration never made such an explicit connection, yet liberals such as Horseface scream all day about the alleged "lies."
