Originally Posted by aceventura3

For the last time, I considered Saddam a threat when he invaded Kuwait. His actions afterward further enforced my beliefs. I thought it was a mistake not to remove him from power in 1991. His attempt to start WWIII after his cause was lost and his continued acts of defiance were unacceptable in my opinion. Diplomacy, sanctions and threats had run their course, Saddam was buy ing time and redirecting billions of dollars from the oil for food program (He was not doing it to build palaces). The attacks on 9/11, in my view, created an urgent need to address the Saddam threat, leaving him unchecked under the conditions after 9/11 would have been a mistake in my opinion. I can not separate Saddam of 2003 from the Saddam of 1991. In my opinion he never changed, the threat he posed never changed.