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As Torie Clarke said last March, there are, and have been, reams and reams and reams of documents available to the press and public proving Saddam's atrocities. Have been for years.

Well, Bush I cited Amnesty International and other reporting on Hussein's cruelty and torture and mass murder tactics.

So it isn't news at all.

I don't get Register's cartoon unless he's being sarcastic.

Our pretext for going to war was either true or it wasn't. Everybody always knew Saddam was an animal so I don't get how people are supposed to be surprised unless this sudden 'discovery' of Saddam The Monster is supposed to somehow justify our lack of WMD evidence.

Lack of WMD evidence is a serious blow to our foreign policy objectives. Otherwise, it will always be said, both here and overseas, that we invaded under false or contrived pretext. We need the WMD. Even a fairly small amount of WMD will do it, provided we can prove it wa produced by Saddam's techs. And it may be even more important to find the evidence for our partners in Britain, Spain, Italy, etc. who took a lot of heat from their peacenik majorities in order to support us.

Naturally, no one will weep over Saddam. Just execute him. But an outright invasion by a major power is a serious matter when it claims it is beng threatened by WMD but can't produce any evidence. Failure to find them or compelling evidence of massive aid to Al-Qaeda by Iraq will undermine our future efforts in pursuing a War On Terror, will undermine our ability to attract allies in taking on Iran and Syria and North Korea.

I think the news is that it is:

1. Proven now.
2. A contrast to the mass graves that were supposed to be found in Bosnia/Kosovo and were not. Therefore, the Clinton reason for going was not proven, but he was given a pass. (And he didn't accidentally turn up Wmd's)
3. Ignored by the media and the democrats.

(BTW, Wmd's in Iraq are proven. They simply aren't in the form desired by the media which has proposed a extremely narrow standard.....a missile or warhead loaded with launchable wmds. Precursor chemicals are found; labs are found; processes are found; recipes are found; special weapons warheads are found that ONLY work with wmds.)

How CAN they find WMDs? Everytime they dig to find WMD they find murdered bodies! There was plenty of evidence of WMD before the war and Saddamn dared us to go to war with him by his actions. If there were no WMD, the world with one less out of control maniacal murderous terroist is a safer world. Not to mention, the ME is a changed place now and changing.

Not that any of this matters because your mind is made up.

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