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What's important to keep in mind is that the folks FEL sites did not launch an invasion into Iraq to remove the "impending threat" that the alleged weapons proported. They did not enact a first-strike policy, they did not snub the U.N. to go it alone, and they did not jump the gun on their intelligence.
No reasonable person will argue about Saddam's moral goodness. The fact is he was/is a bad, bad man and needed to be removed from power for what he was doing internatonally and within his own borders. However, our former administration had the common decency not to give the people of this country, and their representatives in Congress, a series of blanket assertions and lies about our security being in immediate danger to justify a rush to war all by our lonesome. We wanted Saddam out, but the American people are always slow to warm to a war where we are not threatened. This administration constructed that threat in order to remove Saddam from power and gain sole occupation of the area long enough to sell the reconstruction rights to corporations in bed with this administration and gain political favor for 2004. This war did not have to cost this many American lives! It could have waited, without danger, for as long as it took to get the international cooperation to take care of it quickly and effectively with minimal US casualties. The only reason for the pre-emption was political and the Clinton administration did not spend lives for political gain.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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