I predicted here months ago that any attack on Iraq would be a long time coming. To understand why, you have to have figured out what's really going on, which Steyn obviously hasn't.
According to the Vice President, in his MTP interview the other day, the evidence suggests that Saddam was behind 9/11. Well, either that is true or it isn't true: those are the only two possibilities. So, what if it's true? Would Saddam Hussein conduct an attack on the United States on the scale of 9/11 (at minimum, the destruction of the WTC and the Capitol), even behind the veil of terrorism, without some back-end security to deter US finger-pointing and the attendant retaliation? No. What would that back-end security have to be? Well, it would presumably involve WMD -- this is the very scenario that we are using to justify regime change. But he doesn't have nukes. To the best of our knowledge, Saddam has only three WMD at his disposal at the moment: anthrax, botulinum toxin and VX nerve gas.
What happened last year, right after sleeper agents armed with box cutters took down the WTC?
Have you figured it out yet?
Your reasoning is all over the place, and again it assumes the semblance of a rational plan on Saddam's part. I'll add another element which indicates that Saddam is not entirely playing with a full deck - remember how he tried to get President Bush 41 assassinated. If the plot was discovered, he knew he could expect a pounding - he was fortunate that Weird Bill was in power. Yet he did it anyway.
Everything you are saying that exonerates Saddam involves him being a rational world leader. I am trying to tell you, you can impress yourself with all the logical webs you like, but that simply isn't the truth.
Did Saddam have something to do with 9/11 - given the meeting with Atta, and the fact that Saddam has given money to Al Qaeda, he certainly winked at it. That is sufficient reason to take him down.
Is he developing nuclear weapons? If we believe the defectors and the pre-bribed Scott Ritter, certainly.
Does he support terrorism? At the very least to the tune of $25,000 per suicide bomber family.
He needs to be disposed of. I am frankly surprised by how many "conservatives" can't see that having this fellow around is not a good idea.
Ivan