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Originally Posted by daswig
Superbelt, look, it's very simple. DId Saddam support terrorists that killed Americans? The answer is indisputably "yes, he did". This is a war on terrorism. That's ALL terrorism, not just the one particular terrorist attack on 9/11. Saddam was INDISPUTABLY a player. He both sheltered and funded terrorist groups. Groups, I might add, that were indeed responsible for killing Americans. The fact that Saddam didn't order 9/11 is irrelevant. He supported other terrorists, and for that he deserves to die.
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Consider the Contras and Sandinistas
"Simultaneously,
the U.S. administration of Ronald Reagan began organizing remnants of Somoza's National Guard into guerrilla bands known as "Contras" (short for "contrarevolucionarios", or counter-revolutionaries)
that conducted terrorist attacks on economic and civilian targets."