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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
With Saddam Hussein gone al Qaeda took advantage of the entryway to Iraq. They morphed onto the Islamic State. Pure and simple. Think Twitter.
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Much too simple, given what was known and spoken by the U.S. at the U.N. Security Council in 2003.
Colin Powell's speech before the U.N. Security Council, Feb. 5, 2003:
"…..POWELL: What you will see is an accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behavior. The facts on Iraqis' behavior -- Iraq's behavior demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort -- no effort to disarm as required by the international community. Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts
to produce more weapons of mass destruction……"
"……..But what I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much
more sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network, a nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida lieutenants.
Zarqawi, a Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan war more than a decade ago. Returning to Afghanistan in 2000, he oversaw a terrorist training camp. One of his specialties and one of the specialties of this camp is poisons. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp.
And this camp is located in northeastern Iraq.
(Slide 39)
POWELL: You see a picture of this camp.
The network is teaching its operatives how to produce ricin and other poisons. Let me remind you how ricin works. Less than a pinch -- imagine a pinch of salt -- less than a pinch of ricin, eating just this amount in your food, would cause shock followed by circulatory failure. Death comes within 72 hours and there is no antidote, there is no cure. It is fatal……"
Entire Speech Text:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...itycouncil.htm
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