Iraq tied to Global Terrorism

I want to make the case that Iraq is tied into global terrorism. First piece of evidence is that the President of Russia, Vladmir Putin, held a press conference several months ago stating that senior officials from the Hussein regime told the Russian government that they planned on attacking inside the United States after 9/11. Also there was reason to believe that Saddam could have passed the weapons of mass destruction of to a terrorist group that he had after the Gulf War. This way the Hussein government could officially deny any official involvement. The Hussein regime never revealed the where they hid the biological and chemical weapons that they had. The ceasefire in 1991 was contingent on Hussein being transparent to the UN weapons inspectors about where he had his weapons. US experts believe he just gave the inspectors the run around and was easily able to move them so that they could not be found. The US government believes that weapons that Saddam may be in Syria. However Syria says that they dont have them. Syria has had a history of lying to us.
So lets say that the Bush administration decides to pull troops out of Iraq. This would likely lead to civil war and the insurgents take over Iraq. Al-Qaeda decides that they would like the biological and chemical weapons that Saddam had so they put a reward $100,000 American dollars to the individual or group who can bring that to them from Iraq. Sure enough the insurgents are able to deliver on that reward. In a few weeks a ship bound for the United States contains biological weapons. They want to explode it into New York City harbor. Now those of you who know some biological weapons are deadly in even the smallest of doses. The ship comes in to the United States and we dont detect it because we dont have the equipment to monitor it while its aboard a ship. Once this ship explodes, it could kill several hundred thousand civilians in the immediate New York City metro area. Possibly thousands more would be effected by it. This could happen at any of the major ports in the United States like Washington, D.C. and many other cities along the east and west coasts. This is not theory its reality. This is one of the many scenarios that the federal government has been analyzing post 9/11.
In fact there was a sting operation that involved several intelligence agencies including the FBI, Britains MI-5, Interpol, and the KGB convincing some known arms dealers to aquire nuclear weapons from them. Fortunately they were subsequently arrested in New York City before they got the goods.
I dont know how many of you saw the movie, "The Peacemaker." Its about a group of individuals who are able to smuggle a nuclear suit case from Russia into the United States through an unfriendly government disguised as a diplomat to the UN. We tried to get permission and intervene in Russia but we couldnt get permission. One of the things that was interesting was how difficult it was for the government to try and find this person because they had to be careful to get the right person in a city of 8 million people. Now this movie was made prior to 9/11 but it demonstrates how difficult terrorism is to stop here. That is why fighting terrorism abroad instead of here is not just a slogan. Its a matter of national security.
I think we need to thank our government that we have not had a major strike on ours soil since 9/11. Britain has had two in two weeks. We still have a lot of work to do.