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Originally Posted by mirevolver
Iraq is part of the war on terror. It is undisputable that Saddam supported terrorist activity. He gave funds to the Palistinian terrorists and their families. That combined with his desire to have weapons of mass destruction made him a danger to the world he had to be dealt with.
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Hussein is a bad man, and Iraq may one day come to be better off without him (sometime after their civil war, and then again, maybe not), but you never heard anything about suicide bombings in Iraq when he was in charge, and he certainly wasn't exporting terror, just some money to give him some hardcore Muslim cred as a (successful) bid to poison the political well if we happened to invade and conquer. And it wasn't paymets to suicide bombers, but pensions to their families. Looked at from the Arab point of view, this is absolutely no different that passing the hat for a widow of one of our soldiers killed in this ideologically motivated war.
Now, combine this window dressing with a succesully frustrated desire to have weapons of mass distruction, and you have...
A pretext, and a flimsy one at that. I haven't been able to figure if Bush dragged us into this war for political, religious, or economic reasons, but I am pretty sure I am safe in ruling out national security concerns.
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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
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We are, or were four years ago, anyway, the country every other country wanted to grow up to be.
You have got to be joking.
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Ponder: we are 5% of the world's population, and use 25% of the world's resources. I would estimate half to 3/4 of the technological advances of the last 50 years have come from America. Before 9/11, we hadn't had an attack on our soil since WW II, and before that, you have to go back to 1812. So we're rich, fat, smart, tough, comfortable, and armed to the teeth. Leave aside our ideologies, which much of the world (hell much of the country) finds repugnant, and there's a lot to envy there.
Nope, not even close to kidding.