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Whereas Iraq's demonstrated capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction, the risk that the current Iraqi regime will either employ those weapons to launch a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide them to international terrorists who would do so, and the extreme magnitude of harm that would result to the United States and its citizens from such an attack, combine to justify action by the United States to defend itself;

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) authorizes the use of all necessary means to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 (1990) and subsequent relevant resolutions and to compel Iraq to cease certain activities that threaten international peace and security, including the development of weapons of mass destruction and refusal or obstruction of United Nations weapons inspections in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), repression of its civilian population in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 (1991), and threatening its neighbors or United Nations operations in Iraq in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 949 (1994);

That's right. The main objective of the war in Iraq was to enforce the UN security council resolutions which for 12 years Saddam had blatantly defied – how many times ...16 – 17 times? Plus his use of weapons of mass destruction on his own people, and his strong desire to do us harm. Just the fact that he didn't comply with the UN resolutions should have been enough to go to war.

What kills me that no one is asking, or pointing out, why did Saddam continue to play cat and mouse with the weapon inspectors year after year if he had nothing to hide?

How many times did we hear of inspectors coming back absolutely frustrated that they weren't getting anywhere because of the games that were being played at their expense?!

Boxer, Kerry, and others like them would rather destroy this country than give President Bush any legitimacy at all in regards to Iraq. This is exactly the reason the Dems lost the election, and they just don't get it.

That's ok... Let them continue to ignore the security of this country, and the voters will continue to ignore them.