The Right's Attempt to Link Saddam with Terrorists

Much of this is misleading - Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror.

This is similar to the 44 claims in Powell's UN speech laying out the case for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. All misleading, exaggerated and one flat-out lie.

All you need to know. Saddam did not have close ties to Osama and his followers and Osama considered Saddam a secularist who had to go.

The writer like Powell tries to exaggerate some facts into a bigger case than he has. Some of the links to Saddam provided in the emotional photo essay is to the discredited Czech meeting with Ata, another to the chemical weapons plant (disproven), and terrorist training camp (outside of Saddam's control), and the compensation Saddam provided the families of suicide bombers. This last was a shrewd propaganda move on Saddam's part. Israel had started a policy of destroying the homes of the families of suicide bombers - your son kills himself and others so we will make you homeless - and Saddam got great press in the Arab world by giving them $25,000 for the loss of their son and home. Bad - yes, a link to terrorists - no. Saddam is attacked for providing a safe house/interrogation space for one terrorist for a few years but not given credit for killing him.

This is not a debate on how bad Saddam was - he was bad enough without stooping to the lies and trying to make a weak case of terrorist links stronger and implying he had something to do with 9/11.

Saddam - he bad. Very bad. Unhuh. This apologist for an unnecessary and misguided incredibly costly war - he bad, not as bad as Saddam but bad.