Jinn of Current Events

Stephen Hayes (Weekly Standard): ... Before the Iraq war, the U.S. intelligence community reported that from 1996 to 2003 the Iraqi Intelligence service had focused its terrorist activity on Western interests, including the United States; "throughout 2002, the IIS was becoming increasingly aggressive in planning attacks against U.S. interests"; Saddam Hussein was open "to enhancing bin Laden's operational capability" and may have provided training to al Qaeda; bin Laden had made direct and specific requests for Iraqi assistance; al Qaeda had demonstrated an "enduring interest" in WMD expertise from Iraq; the Iraqi regime "certainly" knew that al Qaeda agents were operating in Baghdad and northern Iraq; and Saddam Hussein had made a "standing offer" to Osama bin Laden for safe haven in Iraq. ... 

Omar: You cannot tell a man that saving him and his family from torture, humiliation and death was a mistake and it should've not been done because it's illegal. Actually, in dictatorships, freedom is illegal. Hence one can frame and understand the arguments of those who opposed the liberation of Iraq (France, Germany, and Russia, along with the "antiwar" crowd). One should also note that freedom is an insult to Allah according to the Koran (the faithful is held to be in slavery to Allah), which goes a long way to explain the general lack of freedom in Moslem countries.

Ceterum censeo, delenda est Mecca. 

Iran has been at war with the West since 1979 (hence its qualification as member of the Axis of Evil). With evidence coming to light that Iran helped Al-Qaeda hide the movements of nearly half of the 9/11 hijackers, the time for serious retribution is approaching. Why wasn't Iran the first target? An attack against Iran will be much easier now since the US military can force them into a two front war, attacking from both Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe this has been part of the strategy all along. This is a crucial element: Iran is squeezed by the US on two fronts (and Lebanon-occupier Syria is facing the US and Israel on two fronts). The next campaign of WW IV will be fought to liberate Iran (thereby stopping it from using nuclear weapons against Israel and the West), as the Bush administration has recently indicated.

Ceterum censeo, delenda est Mecca.