“Saddam needed taking out ...”
Did Saddam Hussein blow up the WTC in 1993?
Did Saddam Hussein blow up the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998?
Did Saddam attack the USS Cole in June 2001
Did Saddam Hussein attack us on September 11, 2001?
Did Saddam hijack 4 civilian airliners and turn them into guided missiles?
Did Saddam crash 4 jetliners into the WTC, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field?
Did Saddam Hussein kill over 3000 Americans and injure hundreds of others?
So, pre-emptive wars are appealing to you - as long as it is the U.S. doing the attacking, eh?
Suppose Russia or North Korea or China decides to opt in with that strategy? Is that OK too?
I’m sure they each believe that somebody needs a “taking out.”
One of these times, the stupid neo-con nation builders are going to get us into WW III - and then neither you nor I will be able to have this argument,, b/c we’ll be just a glowing cinder.
Not sure what your point is listing all those things Saddam Hussein did not do.
He didn’t shoot Kennedy either if I recall.
He was an evil, evil dictator who killed, tortured and starved his own people.
Nobody can be sure how many of his own people he killed but at least a hundred thousand probably much more.
So ... maybe that was none of our business ... maybe they were just Iraqis and deserved it.
But back then we had some sense of obligation to save innocent people no matter their race.
Saddam deserved to die. I’m glad he’s dead, even if he didn’t shoot John Lennon.