Where are the WMD? (Robert Novak)

Poet, congress did give Bush carte blanche on Iraq something John Kerry is struggling with admitting. Since your arguement is morality this isn't even pre-emption as he already violated the 1991 cease-fire agreement by firing on u.s. and brit planes maybe 100,000 times. What would have happened if one of our planes would have gone down in the no-fly zone? Your arguement on Mugawbee is interesting since noone at the UN other then the U.S. has advocated doing anything to him, ironically the French side with him too. North Korea doesn't scare me at all simply cause their bragging about it and have no oil to sell to get them money like Iraq, you can essentially choke them out as they really really need our cash. The strategy of pre-emption doesn't have to be a military strike, it could mean cutting off money flow,imposing sanctions,sending troops around the border as a message,etc... the only reason to be buddies with the Saudis is to stabilize oil prices as high gas prices hurt anyone holding political office(both parties indeed), other then that I think everyone would realize the Saudis are not our friends.

The libs already have this figured out. Any chemical or biological weapons we find they will claim we brought to Iraq and "planted" there. And then they'll claim it proves the Iraqis were harmless all along because they could have used their chemical and biological weapons but didn't.

It's the same double-standard they've been arguing all along.

I suggest you do a google search on the War Powers Resolution ( It is not an act of law). This resolution was passed in 1973 over the veto of President Nixon and was supposed to be the mechanism by which the Pres may use the Armed Forces.

The War Powers "Resolution" gives the Pres 60 days + an additional 30 days, but, the bottom line is, Congress Must offically declare war! The President, both houses of Congress have violated their sworn oaths to uphold the Constitution. In fact, the last four Presidents and Congresses have also done that. Nothing in the Constitution give anyone the right to engage in a pre-emptive strike! It only gives authorization if we are attacked on our shores.

Saudi citizens attacked us on 9/11, therefore, we should have answered back, especially after that government held telethons to raise money for the families of the suicide devils.

I say again,If we want to rid the world of repressive regimes, we should arm and train the opposition of those countries and let them choose their leaders instead of us placing our puppets in power. No American life should be lost on foreign soil. I find it an obscenity that an American President gave another man 48 hours to get out of his country. What arrogance! Now, if he is really telling the truth about ridding the world of "terrorists", he should now be giving Mugabe and that jerk in N. Korea 48 hours. BTW, to Hell with the U.N. and their impotent resolutions!

FReegards

Novak's right. It will be quite embarrassing if we don't find substantial evidence of WMD.

But the Bush administration has been nothing if not politically brilliant in letting their critics make total asses of themselves. It's quite possible that they are sitting on the evidence, waiting for the critics, eurinals and domestic, to bitch about the lack of evidence. After letting them dig their own holes for a few days, they'll release the proof to the media.

Your thoughts a couple of years later?

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