Was there Al-Queda in Iraq before the US invasion?

[0p7!mu5]

Hell hea

so I ask again: where the hell are they? We have been there for years and sent countless troops there. Chemical I can believe since they gassed the Kurds same with biological. I like war as much as the next guy i just want a reason and now that oil contracts are popping up Bush has lost MORE of his argument considering that a few of the oil fields up for long term bids are heavily considered by major us companies.

If we were justified in going there Im still looking for evidence. If we found that Saddam in a damn hole in the middle of nowhere Im sure we could have been found at least one sliver of evidence of wmd.

My other concern is this how did it go from Al **** heads to liberating Iraq? I stronlgy believe that no matter what if a country's citizens do not like a government that much for that long then they will eigther leave or revolt and raise hell. It's all about US interests it has been and it will be. Im not saying diplomacy always works or will work but we cant go bomb every country with a nuclear program like it seems like we are doing.

I still say if we are goin to go after any country for terrorism hit syria, they always go there or somehow bring pressure on the Saudi's since alot of terrorist we have found have been from there ( correct me if im wrong)

[Total_Blender]

) Im not saying diplomacy always works or will work but we cant go bomb every country with a nuclear program like it seems like we are doing.

Yeah, Reagan sold Saddam the chemical weapons he used on the Kurds back in the '80's when he was our buddy fighting Iran.Since we have the largest stockpile of WMD's in the world, the whole WMD issue seems to me like a case of the pot calling the kettle black

Al Qaeda might have been in Iraq at some point in time but they were probably not wanted there or officially harbored there by Saddam's gov't. Al Qaeda were here too, and you see what happened to us. Saddam was actually liberal compared to other Arab dictators in that part of the world. So Saddam might have seen Iraq as a potential target for an AQ attack. I read an article that said that AQ and the Baath party were from rival Islam groups as well. They are both Sunni so it must be a different Sunni factions.