"Even knowing what I know today about the stockpiles of weapons, I still would've called upon the world to deal with Saddam Hussein"
Unless you plan to change what he means by "deal with Saddam," then he would have gone for the attack whether he knew about WMD's or not.
Here's another bit to back that up. Anyone remember back just before we attacked Iraq? Bush told Saddam "you must disarm, or we will disarm you." Saddam bullshitted around for awhile and finally destroyed a bunch of weapons. As he was destroying them, Bush released another statement, saying that Saddam must disarm AND leave the country, or we'd attack. Bush changed the rules mid-game to guarantee that Saddam wouldn't meet the conditions.
Mojo, your source is the same as mine, and we're interpreting it two different ways. I do not see where "call upon the world to deal with Saddam" means "work with the UN and get them stop Saddam."
I stand by my Statement. Bush has proven many times that he was going after Saddam whether he was justified or not. As we can clearly see today, and frankly as anyone who actually examined the data could have seen before the invasion, he wasn't justified.
The United States has, under President Bush's watch, become an invasion force. We have attacked a soveriegn nation that has NEVER attacked us. They didn't attack us in the first gulf war, and they didn't attack us this time.
We went to war on the flimsiest possible evidence, which has now been all but 100% proven to be a load of crap. Bush & Co. wanted a war, and they were gonna get one no matter what.
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