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To: billbears
With all due respect, the reasons were clear. Here's what Bush told the UN last year:

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately and unconditionally forswear, disclose, and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, long-range missiles, and all related material. (Remember, all parties -- the UN, other nations -- all concluded that Iraq had an active WMD program. The lack of weapons is a curiosity of the first order, but this objective was not disputed by anyone a year ago.)

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all support for terrorism and act to suppress it, as all states are required to do by U.N. Security Council resolutions. (Iraq was funding Palestinian terrorism against Israel; in fact, one of the guys blown to bits in Baghdad on the decapitation strike aimed at Saddam the first night of the Iraq war was a top Palestinian terror master. The links to terrorism are pretty well known. Read Michael Ledeen's book WAR AGAINST THE TERROR MASTERS as one example; Yosef Bodansky's THE HIGH COST OF PEACE as another.)

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its civilian population, including Shi'a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans, and others, again as required by Security Council resolutions.

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will release or account for all Gulf War personnel whose fate is still unknown. It will return the remains of any who are deceased, return stolen property, accept liability for losses resulting from the invasion of Kuwait, and fully cooperate with international efforts to resolve these issues, as required by Security Council resolutions.

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. It will accept U.N. administration of funds from that program, to ensure that the money is used fairly and promptly for the benefit of the Iraqi people.

...These reasons for war against Saddam were clear. The Democrats hate the idea of a Republican prosecuting a successful war, so they and their surrogates in the media, conveniently ignore them.

21 posted on 09/24/2003 11:17:43 AM PDT by My2Cents (Well...there you go again.)
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To: My2Cents
Yeah, clear as mud. BTW, where are those 30,000 munitions? How about the tons upon tons of WMDs? Surely they've gone through enough closests and empty rooms to find something, anything. How about those ties to 9/11?

Lord knows the Iraqis supported the 9/11 terrorists more ardently than our 'ally' Saudi Arabia < /sarcasm>

27 posted on 09/24/2003 11:26:40 AM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: My2Cents
Nice summary. Here's a good one on links to Al Quaida.
http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp
48 posted on 09/24/2003 3:34:01 PM PDT by neverdem (Say a prayer for New York)
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