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Originally Posted by powerclown
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my bad. "During the Cold War, WMD exclusively meant nuclear weapons." (from your site). guess i hadn't updated my definition. it also mentions that up until 1991, chemical and biological weapons weren't referred to as WMD. and it's still my opinion that they shouldn't be (but that's neither here nor there).
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It has been claimed that he stopped producing WMD because he wanted to get UN sanctions lifted. It has been further claimed that he would have revived those programs the moment sanctions were lifted. There is confirmation in the Duelfer Report of a top-secret 'poisons program' developed by Hussein out of his WMD program that was used to assasinate his rivals and political enemies. Gotta put some of that juice to good use, at least while the whole world is watching for WMD.
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so? what your basically saying is "while sanctioned its illegal for him to make these things and we can legally enforce that, but once we lift the sanctions, and he can legally make them (and we can't force him not to), well, we've gotta stop that." i'm sorry but your theory of intent has nothing to do with the original reasons for the war, and unless you like the idea of thought crimes, that just doesn't hold up.
and oh my god! a dictator, especailly one we already know is as bad as saddam was, had a poison program to get rid of his enemies!?!?@! what the hell does that have to do with justifying the war?
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If your accusing me of not being a pacifist, then yes you are correct. 9/11 changed everything about terrorism, the potential damage caused by terrorists, hiding terrorists, and supporting terrorists. I believe the reaction was an appropriate one: to prove Bin Laden & Co. dead wrong that America is not, in fact, a hedonistic paper tiger that could be brought down by one simple massive strike.
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i agree, 9/11 changed everything. and there's no better way to prove we're not a paper tiger than to take on an inferior army (after 12 years of sanctions) that's not a threat to us while we let countries that are actual threats go unbothered. it's kinda like when i used to beat up my little bro as a kid because i knew that if i tried to take on my older bro, it wouldn't be nice and easy.
your paper tiger wants steak. but all it got was iraq.