[WOSG]

nah, people never cared about WMDs. it was a yawner. and we could just as well gone witht eht rue links to terror ... the REAL PROBLEM was the decision to go to UN. the one thing that tugged at ordinatry people was his torture chambers, killing of his own people, running a police state, and paying for terrorists (eg his funding of suicide bombers, funding GIA, and letting terror cells in europe use IRaqi intel.)

But you see, the UN cant allow the US to invade a country just because it is a terrorist-supporting dictatorship ... why, several security council countries and at least a dozen countries would be legitimate targets! (Now IMHO< we should go after them too, one by one, see below list ... but that's a different story ...)

So when we went to the UN to get 'legitimacy' for a war that was fully justified ALREADY ON OTHER BASES, we couldnt use those bases to argue in front of the UN. So we went based on the fact that saddam wasnt obeying UN resolutions, which happened to be related to his WMD programs. And Bush asked the UN 'to enforce its own resolutions'.

Too bad, because the far better reason - that he funded, armed, trained and supported terrorists was a good enough reason to go back in Sept 02. could have saved ourselves the trouble of 6 months at the UN!


And btw, you are putting the biased reporters words in PWs mouth. Not wise!!

[iconoclast]

I think the reason for the pre-emptive attack on Iraq is rapidly becoming crystal clear. We needed a replacement for the bases in S.A that we have let Bin Ladin run us out of.

I don't necessarily disagree with this strategy. But, as an American, I resent being talked down to, lied to, and propagandized.