revel wrote:I think only a few people are still trying to make a hay day with one terrorist al aqueda cell in Iraq and that in itself meaning that Saddam condoned terrorist. The whole terrorist thing was just introduced to give more weight for the reasons for war with Iraq and it don't wash.
There are simply too many other countries with more terror cells in their borders and more countries with known WMD and countries with evil dictators. There was no reason to go war. You don't go to war because of what may happen and that is all that the justification for the war with Iraq is left with.
It was a dangerous thing to do. Now any country in the world that don't like another country or wants something the other country has or whatever can say, "well, this country might at some point harm our country and the US of A did it, so why can't we?"
The end. (i hope)
This is true. You don't go to war because of what may happen.
You go to war to defeat your enemy.
And, if one is smart about it, you pick the best strategic target that is available.
This is a war.
And, the United States has thus far done well in its strategy of attempting to eliminate key strategic targets.
Saddam Hussein was the only leader on this planet that celebrated 9/11 (all right, the Palestinians too, but they have no power).
We have been at war with Saddam Hussein since he invaded Kuwait - at least according to the Democratic US Congressman and US President (see previous post in this thread).
So, we attacked and removed a keystone in the war on Islamic Fascism.
Another previous post:
Quote:With the destruction of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq, the United States has removed two Fascist regimes that were directly hostile to the United States.
In doing so, Iran, another hostile state, is now surrounded by nations that do not share its views of hegemony by terrorism; that do not share its views of Islam - Wilayat Al-Faqih, Rule by the Jurist, a new Shia cult invented by Khomeini in 1964 while he lived in Najaf, which is in Iraq; and who do not share Iran's views of the desirability of acquiring nuclear weapons.
Likewise, Syria (and its client state Lebanon) is now surrounded by nations that are inimicable to its interests.
Which is why Syria is sending its Sunni Muslims to murder Shia Muslims in Iraq and Iran is sending its Shia Muslims to murder Sunni Muslims in Iraq.
These are lovely people.
Other countries in the world such as France and Russia, opposed and still oppose these actions because they were having oily intercourse with Saddam. They resent their Oil For Fraud money being cut off.
In the meantime, Saudi Arabia now has to deal with the consequences of its own promotion of Islamic terror and fascism. Again, with Iraq on its border, it is also surrounded by nations (with the exception of Yemen) that find its Wahhabi national cult abbhorrent.
The Wahhabis murdered hundreds of thousandsof Shia Muslims in Northern Saudi Arabia and Southern Iraq in the last century.
They destroyed (the current ruling family of Jordan) the Hashemites who controlled Mecca and Medina.
Saudi Arabia has been put "on notice" by its neighbors through the actions of the United States.
To sum it up, the Bush Administration is doing what the previous Clinton administration and even the previous Bush administration have been trying to do for 14 years.
And they are succeeding.
Failure, as you may have noticed on 9/11, means death.
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