[Ragtime Cowgirl]

He was seeking to acquire long range missiles, owned missiles with reservoirs, had used WMDs to murder Iraqis in over 40 villages, invaded his neighbor.

With the ease of restarting his bioweapons production, his financing of international terrorism ~ his intent, his history, high speed communications and transportation ~ making the possibility of his obtaining WMDs easier by the day, post 9-11 ~ sorry, the MAN WAS an imminent threat to civilization.

WMDs were never the number one reason to go after Saddam. That was a creation of our enemies, both foreign and domestic. The same folks who misled and are still misleading, the masses daily through newswires fed to most every American hometown print and TV news outlet.

We had absolute cause to take him out.

Just cause.

 

  Proud to Have Liberated Iraq 

[George W. Bush]

xzins: Suffice it to say that they've proven it to me.

Well, suffice it to say that this is not the first time we must simply disagree in our conclusions over textual evidence. ; )

Cowgirl, I take your points as read but simply don't agree. I'll just say that your second paragraph seems to build up the idea that he did pose a WMD threat of some immediacy while your third paragraph immediately followed on by denying that WMD ever were relevant to our war pretext/justification/whatever.

Sorry, you just don't get to score points on both. One or the other, please.

I suggest you review Secretary Powell's speeches and the evidence he presented at the U.N. when he sought their authorization for war. Not that we ever needed it or that we should have even sought it. Unless my memory of those events are yet another big liberal media hallucination too. (Well, okay, yes, Powell's liberal and does appear to hallucinate but that's not what I meant.)