1. Such a war can only lead to an increase in terrorism.Nonsense. Terrorism has existed, and will continue to exist and flourish, in the absense of terrorism. Unless the bombing of that nightclub was a result of Australian agression.
Anyone still doubting that oil is a motive behind the war need only consider the Bush Administration's deep ties with the oil industry,More gibberish. If the Bush family wanted to steal middle east oil, we would have done so when we liberated Kuwait. We didn't, and we won't this time either.
2. There are no proven links between Saddam and the Al-Qaeda.There are, however, proven links between Saddam and terrorism in general. There is a war against terror, not a war against just Al-Qaeda.
3. Before the UN sanctions Saddam had created a country with the one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East.Without getting into the accuracy of the assertion, I will point out that your argument basically is that if a tyrant provides a high standard of living for his people, it matters not what atrocities he commits or what international laws he flaunts. Nice moral high ground there.
4. The threat that Iraq poses to us is tiny. Iraq probably still has some 'weapons of mass destruction' of course,I assume that when we get done with Iraq and then focus on North Korea, you will then be on board and not complaining about expanding US imperialism? One target at a time. When we dispatch Saddam, we will see if North Korea has gotten the message. And by the way, the time to take care of an emerging threat is when it is emerging, not after. Bill Clinton would have done well to realize this in his mishandling of North Korea.
5. The US has a deplorable record of foreign intervention over the past 50 years.The Eastern European nations freed from the grip of the Soviet Bloc would disagree with you, as would the people of Grenada.
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