[WOSG]

you would be better off simply taking Bush's statements as the reasons, as THE reasons. There were several - terror links, WMDs, a dictatorshi that fostered the seeds of hate against us and brutalized his own people, etc. ... this (SA airbases) was not one of them.

You were not lied to on this matter ... unless you count Vanity Fair, the New YOrk Times, Robert Fisk, and The Gaurdian.

[iconoclast]

you would be better off simply taking Bush's statements as the reasons, as THE reasons. There were several - terror links, WMDs, a dictatorshi that fostered the seeds of hate against us and brutalized his own people, etc. ... this (SA airbases) was not one of them.

1)Terror links - no more than most M.E. muslim states and fewer than some.

2) WMD - still lookin' for em'.

3)Brutal dictatorship - about as common as weeds in the second and third worlds. Since when are they a priority?

4)(The UNMENTIONED ONE), SA airbases - now to become Iraq airbases ... the only serious outcome of the war (other that unanticipated civil chaos) and exactly the point I am failing to get across to you!