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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Again, it comes to a judgment call.
Absolutely...it does. Consider though, who is truly responsible for the judgment and resulting problems.
You would take the risk that he had no WMD, did not have the ability to deploy them, nor the will.
As it was virtually impossible to deliver any ordinance to my country, short of individual terrorist action ( which was also not a viable theory at the time), Yes...I would take that risk.
I would error on the other side of the issue. I would error on that side even if I thought there was for example 90% chance he did not have WMD, because of Saddam's history and defiance.
In other words, You would invade another nation, on a 10% chance you would be justified in the eyes of the world, and your own citizens? One could then justify destroying any one considered an enemy at any time. I can't tell you how good it is to know you are not in a position to act on your beliefs, unfortunately Bush was.
And I would premise my arguement to the American people by saying there is a "chance he has WMD...". I guess you would say I am a lier.
Not a lair....as you do not have access to the Data required to make a judgment for everyone else. Let alone deciding to withhold what you consider "Counter" information due to agenda.
On the other hand what would you say to the American people to justify your inaction, given the possibility that he might of had WMD? What would you say if you turned out being wrong and he used WMD? Oops, my bad?!?  |
I would be upset were we attacked by a 20 yr old mustard gas shell lobbed at us from a non existent navy....as I simply would not have found that a likely scenario, and would have been wrong. I would feel terrible for the tens of people who suffered at the hands of such a nasty weapon, and regretted my inaction.
Information is already leaking into the masses however, that is was known the issue of viable weapons of mass destruction had been discounted by the very people we sent to verify the existence of them. Both the CIA and the UN, explained the program was either not there, or incapable of creating a true threat Then we go into a delivery system and realize there was no possible way the Saddam Regime could actually deliver anything to our soil even if they had it.
So that 90% chance they were no threat to me...seems a bit more important in the context of safety, than the 10% you are playing off of.