“And we won’t come back till it’s over over there…”
Be sure to check out Thomas Joscelyn’s latest remarks on the connections between the very late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddamite Iraq:
There is abundant evidence that Saddam’s regime, at the very least, tolerated Zarqawi’s existence in regime-controlled areas of Iraq prior to the war. Moreover, at least three high-level al Qaeda associates have testified to Saddam’s warm welcome for Zarqawi and his associates.
Consider what a top al Qaeda operative, Abu Zubaydah, told his CIA interrogators after his capture in March 2002. According to the Senate Intelligence Report, Zubaydah said “he was not aware of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda.” But, he added that “any relationship would be highly compartmented and went on to name al Qaeda members who he thought had good contacts with the Iraqis.” Zubaydah “indicated that he heard that an important al-Qaida associate, Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, and others had good relationships with Iraqi intelligence.”
Even if the al-Qaedists’ pre-war links with Saddam were all supposition, it still wouldn’t change the central fact of our fight against Islamofascism today: our men and women in uniform are fighting these savages over there. The jihadists and mujahadeen who so desperately want a piece of the Great Satan can have it on Arab soil and not here.
Anybody who doesn’t understand that particular aspect of our strategy against the Islamofascists is either a dumbass or an anti-war Democrat.
