Help explain(again)why we went to war with Iraq to a liberal

f7Oshawn ^ | 2/4/04 | f7Oshawn

[Fenris6]

The short answer is that we took down Saddam to pevent him from annonymously passing off Bio & Chem WMDs to Al-Queda.

To followup on the (weak0 analogy - if someone across town was helping thugs with info & techniques on how to kidnap & rape women in your neighborhood, you'd want them taken out. You'd still want the thugs (Al Queda) taken down too, but its just good sense to take out the peeps who are willing to supply the thugs with lockpicks & duct tape.

You'll note that Al_Queda is *still* resorting to hijacking aircraft and crashing them into Americans. Thats bad, but a whole lot better than some of the things they could do if backed by a nation-state with the ability to manufacture Anthrax and VX.

[Fenris6]

"If Osama Bin Laden is alive, I have to wonder why he has such difficulty releasing actual videotapes rather than all these dumb audiotapes"

My understanding is that he had jaundice (or whatever is it that cuases your skin to turn yellow). In the Arab world, its considered to be a sign of Heresy (or something similar, I forget). Kinda ironic.