[browardchad]

Good try, but Iraq is not a separate issue. Hussein is at this moment capable of making the Israel/Palestinian violence look like intramural basketball games, and he's hoping for just a little more time until he can deliver them long-distance. True, he doesn't give a hoot about Islam, but he sure would like to settle the score against the U.S., in a more spectacular way than he's tried in the past.

[mamelukesabre]

What do you mean "not a separate issue". It most certainly is a separate issue. I'm not saying that we shouldn't do anything about saddam, only that we should take care of what we already started with al-qaeda first(or at least concurrently). Saddam may be a greater threat, but only because we have al-qaeda on the run at the moment. Why should we not take the opportunity to finish them off now while we can? Al-qaeda will only come back later just as saddam has if we let them continue.