Fed> THE FEDERALIST DIGEST Fed> The Conservative e-Journal of Record Fed> * Veritas Vos Liberabit * Fed> Fed> 19 September 2003 Fed> Federalist No. 03-38 Fed> Friday Digest Fed> Fed> .... Fed> While Saddam did not leave a paper trail sufficient to suggest Fed> he personally vetted al-Qa'ida's 9/11 attack on our countrymen, Fed> here is just a bit of what we do know about Saddam's coddling Fed> of al-Qa'ida terrorists. Under Saddam's reign of terror, Iraq Fed> provided chemical and biological weapons training for al-Qa'ida Fed> terrorists and in 2002 provided medical care for senior al-Qa'ida Fed> operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and safe haven for two dozen Fed> al-Qa'ida terrorists travelling with him. Facilities in northern Fed> Iraq run by Zarqawi and terrorist network Ansar al-Islam included Fed> al-Qa'ida poisons/toxins laboratories and planning centers for Fed> attacks against France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia.
>This "Northern Base" was not under Saddam's control. It was under
>*our* control, and that of our Kurdish friends
Fed> Fed> For the record, The Federalist reiterates its standing position: Fed> The United States deposed Saddam Hussein and his Ba'athist regime Fed> in order to prevent -- if not too late -- the transfer of nuclear Fed> and biological WMD intent for use against the U.S. and its allies Fed> by al-Qa'ida or other terrorist surrogates. The primary objective Fed> of al-Qa'ida and their collaborators remains to disable the U.S. Fed> economy permanently, and thus disrupt its political, economic Fed> and equally important, cultural influence around the world.
>This paragraph is the one that prompted the post.
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>Read carefully.
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>War was justified to precent "the transfer of nuclear and
>biological WMD intent for use against the US..."
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>Not "...biological WMD, intended for use..."
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>Saddam was warred upon for intended to transfer *intent*.
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>This is no misprint, misspeak or misproof.
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>Watch your local media for repetition of this meme, "WMD intent".
>It is a fucking thought crime, of course.