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Entry: Ron Paul's Patriotic Crimethink Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_pauls_patriotic_crimethink#1437 Post contents: “Confronting the threat posed by Iraq is not a distraction from the war on terror; it is absolutely crucial to winning the war on terror.” - Dick Cheney The President answered:” The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, <i>because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda</i>." Bush reiterated that the administration never said that "the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated" between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. President Bush, having repeatedly linked Saddam Hussein to the terrorist organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said yesterday, ”there is no evidence that the deposed Iraqi leader had a hand in those attacks”. After Four years of war in Iraq, it is now extensively accepted that Iraq or Saddam Hussein never had any relationship with Al-Qaeda nor did Saddam or Iraq have any hand in terrorist attacks on the US soil on 9/11/2001. Yet the US administration has persistently been telling the world and its American constituents that there was a relationship between Iraq and 9/11. Is this contradictory? Was the US administration flat out untruthful when it insisted on an Iraq and 9/11 relationship? Parse the US Administrations various statements carefully and it comes out that they were claiming that Iraq had a connection with 9/11 but the Iraq government or Saddam Hussein never really had anything to do with 9/11. What was that relationship? What was the Iraqi connection with the terrorism on 9/11? The roots of Gulf War II took shape in Gulf War I. The Iraqi move into Kuwait scared the Saudi Arab regime. The United States, too, saw the opportunity to strengthen its position in the area. Saudis were terrified of the growing Iraqi influence in the area. They sought support and the protection for the House of Saud, and agreed to allow the US army to build bases in Saudi Arabia for protection from the internal or the external threats. The US attack on Iraq in 1991 was a major media event. Television crews from all over the world descended in the region and beamed the war on television screens all over the world. The Tomahawks and the cruise missiles blasted from the sea flew over the sacred cities in Iraq, dismantling civilian buildings and military infrastructure in Iraq and killing innocent Iraqis. It was a ghastly sight. Planes flying from one sacred land Saudi Arabia, to another suggested to Jihadis that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia too had abandoned Muslims. Betrayal caused despair and Jihadis in Afghanistan and elsewhere called for revenge. Baghdad was the city where the Muslims and Arabs ruled the world from. It was the symbol of Muslim power and the US attempted to destroy it in 1991. 9/11 was a revenge of Baghdad’s destruction in 1991. 9/11 was meant to replace some symbols. In the first Gulf War, The Tomahawk and cruise missiles were displayed on television with great fanfare all over the world as they flew over Iraq. The US bombers and fighter jets dominated the news and war reports on the television. Those were the symbols of the US military prowess. The US public and International audience saw an awesome display of the US firepower. The attacks on the morning of 9/11 replaced those symbols with the US-owned planes crashing into the US financial center in the biggest US metropolis and its most fortified federal building in the Capital, killing the US citizens the way the US planes had killed Muslims in Baghdad. Television images now were displaying different emotions and different pictures. Jihadis had inflicted the revenge on the US for destroying and attacking an Arab and a Muslim country in 1991. The destruction and control of Iraq was essential in shattering the Jihadi spirit and to stop the cycle of revenge let loose after the first Gulf war. Four years later, Iraq’s destruction is almost complete. The obliteration of the US buildings in the United States has been avenged. Sent at: 2008 07 25