[Salvation]

**Hussein's Baathists fired missiles at our pilots "thousands" of times in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq.**

BTTT for that one!

[vbmoneyspender]

Here is the relevant language from the Resolution that Kerry voted in favor of:

Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.

This has become a bit of petpeeve for me because no-one on our side ever mentions this fact in discussions about why Hussein constituted a threat. The only public figures I have seen or heard comment about this are Donald Rumsfeld, Victor Hanson and Michael Medved. Hanson, however, is the only one who has made the important argument that if we are not prepared to go to war when someone is routinely firing missiles at our people, then we have learned absolutely nothing from 9/11.