[no-to-illegals]

Full agreement on j. carter. zer0 is a piece of excrement, and anything touched by zer0 and his crowd takes on the same appearance. Notice where did not mention iraq. iraq could have waited. gw listened to the wrong people and thereby setup America for zer0 (imho). Not attempting to be confrontational, just attempting to utilize the hind sight of 20/20.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know if it would have been better or worse for Bush in 2004 if he had continued the appeasement route with Saddam Hussein like his predecessors--in 2003 I thought if he came across as weak dealing with Saddam that would hurt him, but maybe the war hurt him more. I doubt he made his decision to attack based on the political advantages or disadvantages.

In 2003 there were people who believed that Saddam was trying to acquire nuclear weapons, including some Clintonistas. I think that's why Joe Wilson and company made a major attack on Bush over the Niger yellowcake story (which didn't really disprove that Saddam was trying to acquire the bomb--not that the media was going to analyze the story objectively).

Whether Saddam would have managed to get the bomb if left in office, no one can know--but he would have been a lot closer to Israel than the Iranians are. He was causing trouble in a lot of other ways too. Whether there was a way to get rid of him without invading and trying to fix Iraq is another question--maybe not considering how long the Baathists had been in control in Iraq (ever since 1958).