Last week I woke up from a dream in which I was experiencing a geopolitical analysis. In it, I concluded that a major rationale of the preemptive invasion of Iraq was grounded in the Cold War, a move to keep it from falling into Russian influence.
At first I was incredulous of my dream, but I decided to google a bit, and quickly encountered some mainstream media stories (a few of which I had seen before in some form or another) which backed my dream's conclusion.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/13/MN20786.DTL
The documents found Thursday and Friday in a Baghdad office of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police, indicate that at least five agents graduated Sept. 15 from a two-week course in surveillance and eavesdropping techniques, according to certificates issued to the Iraqi agents by the "Special Training Center" in Moscow.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041229-113041-1647r.htm
A Pentagon official who publicly disclosed information showing Russian involvement in moving Iraqi weapons out of that country has been dismissed.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490
Two Iraqi documents from March 2003 -- on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion -- and addressed to the secretary of Saddam Hussein, describe details of a U.S. plan for war. According to the documents, the plan was disclosed to the Iraqis by the Russian ambassador.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0820/p01s03-woeu.html
Amid uncertainty about US war plans toward Iraq, Russia is poised to sign a $40 billion economic cooperation deal with the regime of Saddam Hussein ... The Moscow daily Kommersant wrote yesterday that if sanctions against Iraq are lifted, Russia is set to renew arms sales to the regime.
So, in the end, plenty of documented links between Saddam and Russia, yet no links to al Qaida that have withstood scrutiny. I suppose this narrative will be obvious to historians decades from now.
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