[yonif]

Iraq had a WMD program. Whether or not it has stockpiles at the time of the invasion could very be a legitimate question. However, much was sent to Syria and Libya, with Egypt's help, before the war according to articles I read before the US went in.

But it should not matter. Saddam's was a terrorist regime. The US is fighting a war on terrorism, all terrorism. Not a war on just WMD, or just Al Queda. Any terrorism. So statements like "Saddam had no links to Al Queda" are idiotic as well.

And Saddam Hussein's regime was a terrorist regime even before 9/11/01.

Finally, Saddam had a regime with the same traits as the Taliban one - and we all know what such a regime resulted in harboring.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Then there's the Salman Pak training camp and Anser Al-Islam, who had close ties to Al-Qaeda, basing their operations in Iraq, and Abu Nidal, the terrorist living in Baghdad that was killed the day we drove into Baghdad, which I suspect was a means to keep him silent about the terrorist ties that were fervent in Saddam's circle of terrorist ties.

[eyespysomething]

You take out the entire hornets's nest, not the single hornet.