[antimedia] antimedia: There are some who say that....

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There are some who say that....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1165542691.shtml


   ....our invasion of Iraq precipitated the influx of Al Qaeda
   terrorists into Iraq. [1]They would be wrong.

     Mr. Blair today said something that is important and should be
     realized. The situation in Iraq is not primarily a measure of the
     failure of American and allied policies but rather the successes of
     the Morlocks. The New Order forces are only to blame for not being
     able to understand and correctly appreciate the seriousness of the
     threat and hence find a way to thwart the deliberate plan of the
     enemy (Sadamists, Al-Qaeda etc. etc.). This plan came into effect
     from the very first week after that glorious day of April when the
     idol fell in Firdous Square. There is little doubt that much of the
     chaos, pilfering and arson were part of a deliberate plan prepared
     long before the fall and carried out by special cells of baathists
     prepared and trained for this kind of action as part of contingency
     plans for precisely this kind of scenario. This is no secret and
     actually Saddam himself often talked about it publicly when he was
     in power, vowing never to surrender Iraq but an empty land devoid
     of inhabitants. Al-Qaeda types, extremists and suicide volunteers
     were imported from Arab and non-Arab countries during the weeks and
     months preceding the battle of Iraqi Freedom, and these were
     frequently boasted about and shown and on T.V., they were housed in
     the best hotels (such as the Rashid hotel and the like) and looked
     after in a way that many of these miserable characters had never
     seen in their life before. The number of Arab volunteers was said
     to be about ten thousand just before the onset of military
     hostilities.
     Saddam realized very clearly what was going to happen and had no
     illusions about it. You must give him at least credit for that. If
     you saw him those days in public appearances he seemed to be almost
     in a trance. For someone like me who had the misfortune to observe
     this man for many years, it was clear to me personally that he was
     in a state of total despair and a kind of fatalist acceptance of
     his fate. So indeed, he was planning for the aftermath about which
     he had no illusions, for quite sometime before 2003. Thus, the
     presence of Al-Qaeda types, the Zarqawis and their alliance with
     the baathists were prepared carefully long before the events of
     April 2003. He laid the grounds and foundations for something that
     was going to grow and develop into the horror that we see today.
     These suicide volunteers were the unconventional weapon that
     Al-Sahaf, the famous and comical information minister of Saddam,
     boasted about so often before and during the military campaign.
     Well, this weapon may not have been very effective at the time, but
     it sure played a devastating role later on. Saddam knew that he had
     no immediate defense against a direct American assault, so he
     prepared for a different kind of response, a kind of posthumous
     revenge against all his enemies both American and Iraqi..(Emphasis
     mine.)

   The idea that Al Qaeda was drawn to Iraq by the presence of US troops
   and that Sadaam had no relationship with Al Qaeda at all is obviously
   false. Makes you wonder what else the "experts" knew that was
   erroneous.

References

   1. http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_messopotamian_archive.html#116552248922763653