Bitonti - you are starting to get on my nerves with your flagrant misrepresentations.
The war is not "now" about terrorism and "not" WMD. We haven't found stockplies, but Saddam clearly manitained the componentry, the know-how and the will to produce WMD at any point in the future. He did NOT comply with UN inspections at ANY point during the interim between wars, even according to Hans Blix during the recent inspections. He had not a the fundamwental decision to comply with the terms of the cease-fire he signed with us. He was a supporter of terrorism (including Palestinian terror that you point to as evidence of force "not working to contain") who was not deterred by inspections since so many countries illegally tadded with him during the sanctions. He was harboring terrorists and making life miserable for his own people, all of whom could be brainwashed into thinking it was the USA'a fault. The reasons to remove him were many and just. It was about both WMD and terrorism. Why do you think I have repeated my joke about Saddam making cookies all this time? It accurately reflecst your dim understanding of the nature of the entire WMD and your narrow application of the fact that we haven't found any yet. Did you even read Kay's preliminary report? Are you this biased as to become a caricature?
You have admitted in the past to not acknowledging the threat AQ posed on 9-10-2001. How can you then turn around and say with certainty that country X was definitely not a threat? Was N Korea a threat in 1997, 1999, 2001? Well, what? Was AQ a threat after the 93 WTC attack or during any of the number of attacks prior to 9-11, or were they only a threat after 9-11? Are they still a threat? How do you define "threat" in these terms?
How would you KNOW if something worked to stop terrorism? If we had invaded Afganistan in 2000 and, let's say for argument's sake, kille EVERY member of AQ, but lost 400 US soldiers in the process you'd be lecturing us this very day about how AQ wasn't a threat and that this type of action won't stop terrorism.
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