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Old 01-11-2004, 10:42 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Stare At The Sun
Honestly, if we went to war over MORTAR rounds, that's pretty messed up. I mean , what are they gunna do, create a mortar with a 10,000 foot barrel, and launch them over the ocean at us? This is pathetic. Not a smoking gun, and not a weapon of "mass destruction" they probably would have exploded in the launching barrel, killing the crew, and not the intended target. If you say this justifies the war...then...well, i'm at a loss for words.
It's part of a larger tapestry. Hussein was a dangerous leader because of his propensity to secret WMD programs, willingness to deal with terrorists, and hatred for the US. My biggest fear of Hussein was that he would provide either bin Laden or Hamas with WMD's. THAT is how he was a threat to the US. If you deny that this was a legitimate possibility, then I can see why you might disagree. In my opinion, however, he had to be taken out. And, to the benefit of the world at large, it was accomplished.

Now, the anti-war crowd has been handed a legitimate beef in that the Bushies hung the justification on huge stockpiles of WMD's rather than simply making the case that Hussein was a dangerous and destabilizing threat. That was Bush's biggest mistake imho.

However, this discovery suggests that it is much easier to hide weapons than once believed. There's no telling what might come out of that desert in the next 5-10 years.
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