# CNN Reports Saddam Offered Asylum \[to Bin Laden\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377 "2007-01-02T03:03:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377/61 "2007-01-03T04:27:59Z")

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Perhaps the OP would care to offer some thoughts in this thread:

> **[Bush's Strategy for Victory in Iraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=402517)**
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> Step 1: Surge troops into Iraq. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Victory! Lest you think I’m joking. (emphasis mine) IOW, we’ll be doing something, without actually doing anything meaningful. Unless, of course, you think that killing more US soldiers and...

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377/62 "2007-01-03T20:24:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Larry Borgia]  
That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? No real argument on how this offer of asylum justified an invasion? Anything?  
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Given the stunning OP that kicked off this thread, were you really _expecting_ anything deeper?

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377/63 "2007-01-03T21:21:03Z")

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What I find amusing about all this is that Don’s entire argument is “Look, CNN says this.” There’s no other evidence.

Yessirree, we can definitely trust the media to get this right. After all, it was CNN, the New York Times, FOX, the Washington Post et al. who were trumpeting in 2003 that Iraq had weapons of mass desctruction, and look how right they were then!

Tell ya what Don; Show me a smoking gun. Then I’ll believe it.

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**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-reports-saddam-offered-asylum-to-bin-laden/386377/64 "2007-01-03T22:29:26Z")

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[QUOTE=RickJay]

Tell ya what Don; Show me a smoking gun.  
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Are you sure? After all, we wouldn’t want the “smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

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