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Originally posted by apeman
1 history of aggresion - check
2 brutality towards his own people - check
3 efforts to procure and make WMDs - kind of check
4 ongoing ties to terrorist organizations - mmmm
so it's the significance of items 3 and 4 that we're interpreting differently i guess... and i don't honestly see what 1 and 2 have to do with the US, unless you're trying to prove that he was an evil dangerous bastard?
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It is the combination that made Saddam remaining in power a high risk.
4 was proven by his sponsorship of suicide bombers in Israel as well as by the fact that AQ operatives took refuge in Iraq.