That may be so...but I would ask; Would you, as a sitting President, regardless of family ties, permit a country’s government to attempt an assassination on a US citizen, let alone, a former US President?
The WMD issue...hmm, I seem to recall a few thousand Kurds being wiped out by the Hussein regime using WMD. So they did exist and had been used. There was evidence at the time that the WMD had simply been sent to Syria, with Russian assistance.
How much WMD is too much? One shell, one drum, one truckload, one trainload? Remember, MASS Destruction...it doesn’t take much of the chemical in a single artillery shell to unleash mass casualties. So were we to look for thousands upon thousands of drums, or a few dozen?
I forget, how many UN resolutions did Saddam fail to comply with as a result of having his A$$ kicked in GW1?
Oil for food scandal?
The persistent violations of the agreed upon No Fly Zones?
There were many reasons for Saddam to have been overthrown. Should we have done it? I’m still cogitating on that, but in retrospect, we did ourselves no favors.
And I do agree with the author’s position that we turned Iraq into a meat grinder for the terrorists...instead of on US soil.
“That may be so...but I would ask; Would you, as a sitting President, regardless of family ties, permit a country’s government to attempt an assassination on a US citizen, let alone, a former US President?”
You’re kidding right? This is normal stuff, there are always this kind of stuff going on and we do it our selves. So was it worth it? And who really cares what kind of weapons Saddam has, we didn’t lift a finger when 500,000 in Rwanda were slaughtered did we? You’re problem is that you think that the US should be the worlds policeman (only selectively on those that really deserve it). Are you willing to spend peoples lives for that and trillions of dollars that we don’t have? And for what so that we can leave and watch it all go to hell any way? And in fact is worse now than when Saddam was in power.