For the last time, birds of a feather flock together, okay? Have you got that now?
(This post is dedicated to the obtuseness of those in the government and elsewhere who apparently fail to have a passing knowledge of human nature.) IBD, commenting on the (inexplicably) tiny portion of the 48,000 boxes and 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and documents that have been translated so far:
– Saddam is heard on a 1997 tape predicting terrorism would soon be coming to the U.S., while his son-in-law — who was in charge of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction — gloats about lying to U.N. weapons inspectors to hide the extent of Iraq’s WMD program.
– Saddam, in a tape made in 2000, talks with Iraqi scientists about his plans to build a nuclear device. He discusses Iraq’s plasma separation program — an advanced uranium-enrichment technique completely missed by U.N. inspectors.
– An Iraqi intelligence document, released just two weeks ago, describes a February 1995 meeting between Saddam’s spies and Osama bin Laden. During that meeting, bin Laden offered to conduct “joint operations” with Iraq. Saddam subsequently ordered his aides to “develop the relationship” with the al-Qaida leader.
– A fax, sent on June 6, 2001, shows conclusively that Saddam’s government provided financial aid to Abu Sayyaf guerrillas in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf is an al-Qaida offshoot co-founded by bin Laden’s brother-in-law.
Okay, got that now, nutjobs and State Department officials? The Shiites hate the Sunnis and the Sunnis hate the Shiites, the al Qaedas hate the seculars, but everyone hates the Great Satan? Are we clear yet? And in case you can’t keep that little thought in your head, just remember Tom Lehrer’s song, National Brotherhood Week:
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the Jews
Now that should be easy enough to remember in today’s world.
UPDATE
We did not even mention above Saddam’s call for suicide volunteers against America in 2001, or the recently unearthed WMD location memo, via Captain Ed.