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Originally posted by maximusveritas
What's not debatable is that the President has misled this nation into an unjustified war that we and our children will be paying for for years to come.
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How so?
"There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al-Qaida ties."
Well, he had ties with and supported an organization which we now believe to be the sole force behind that attack. the presidency never once came out saying "Saddam ordered teh attacks", or "Saddam did it". They said that saddam supported Al-Qaida, if i recall correctly, he even financed them with large hunks of money. While his hands may have been clean, having no idea what exactly would happen or when it would happen, i think it is clear that he does support and finance terrorist organizations.
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to take the necessary actions against .... including those nations....or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
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How could this be a lie to congress? It is clear that Saddam, while not directly organizing or commanding the attack did "aid the terrorist attacks". Financing and providing for the organization responsible sure sound like he aided them with the supplies they needed.
As for the first part of that letter, it is absoluteyl true. Furthere diplomatic reliance on the UN wouldn't adequately protect the US from an imenant threat. It also wouldn't enforce the UN resolutions. How many had already be broken and ignored? 17 or something at last count. Maybe not that many but it was a lot.
Also the war wasn't soley about Saddam Hussein. He was an important figure and was a great person to focus our anger on, but the president made clear that Iraq as a country was responsible, not just their 1 leader. We all know that Saddam surrounded himself with people just as guilty as he. We know he had lackeys that were more personally involved with terrorist, getting them weapons and helping their causes. We also know that he had lackeys responsible for instituting his cruel and unusual punishment upon the citizens of Iraq. We went to war with the leadership, the government, and the military personell of iraq, not just saddam hussein.