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Originally Posted by bling
There were no troops on the ground. It was controlled via the no-fly zone. The no-fly zone prevented any of Saddam's forces to occupy the land. It was setup to protect the Kurds, as deemed necessary by the U.S., U.K. and France by virtue of U.N. Resolution #688.
None of it has anything whatsoever to do with the fact that Cheney falsely linked Saddam's Iraq with 9/11.
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So, because there was a no-fly zone, you're saying we controlled the area? Did the no-fly zone allow us to just run around randomly bombing the ground under it? Saddam couldn't occupy the land NOT because of the no-fly zone, but because there were a bunch of highly pissed-off Kurds with guns there.
There were members of Al Queda within the geographic borders of Iraq. I don't think you're disputing this. If you are disputing this, get a map, look at the borders, look at the camp, and see if it's within what the map calls "IRAQ". If that's the case, then Cheney's statement was indeed factually accurate.