RangerDick

I posted this another thread already, but it seems to be relevant to this discussion as well. Attached is a link to the Joint Resolution for the Use of Military Force in Iraq. In it you will find several reasons for the justification for the use of military force. Liberation of the Iraq's is mentioned, it's right there in black and white.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/rele...20021002-2.html

Here are just a few selected passages:

Quote:
....... Whereas the efforts of international weapons inspectors, United States intelligence agencies, and Iraqi defectors led to the discovery that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program, and that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than intelligence reporting had previously indicated;......

.......Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;.......

........ Whereas the Iraq Liberation Act (Public Law 105-338) expressed the sense of Congress that it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove from power the current Iraqi regime and promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime;