So what if Saddam had used WMDs. So what if Saddam had secret programs in the mid-90's that were discovered when some people defected from Iraq and provided evidence of the programs. Even Saddam admitted he had WMDs, and failed to account for the destruction.
So what if Saddam's military routinely shot at US/Coalition planes that were monitoring Iraq and enforcing the no-fly zone. This would be the like expecting the police to take action in a neighborhood where people would shoot at the cop cars as they drove by. We really expect the police to not take action ... right??
So what if Saddam was secretly siphoning of billions of dollars from the Oil-for-Food (and bribes, and palaces and weapons) Program that was monitored by the UN (and they were also in on the scam.) So what if the program, because of fraud, was helping Saddam stay in control while allowing tens of thousands of Iraqi people to suffer and die. So what if Iraqi people were dying ... it's not like they are real people who count ... people who count like Democrats and Michael Moore. The Iraqi people flying kites, shown in the Farenheit 911 movie probably supported Michael Moore and Saddam.
So what if Saddam was giving families of suicide bombers $25,000 to spread terrorism in Isreal. And even though Claudia Rosett of the Wall Street Journal is exposing the fact that Osama bin Laden was probably broke when he left Sudan in 1997-1998 ... (after Clinton refused the offer of Sudan to turn him over to us) ... but while in Afghanistan, bin Laden was probably getting hundreds of millions of dollars from Saddam (diverted from the UN's Oil for Scam program) ... and so Saddam was funding Osama ... but heck .. who cares, since Bush lied about WMDs.
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So what should we do ... put Saddam back into power and let him restore "order"? Tell the Iraqi people that we don't value them ... they really aren't human anyway since they never fought for their freedoms (well ... they tried, but Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of them for trying ... but hey ... who gives a damn ... Bush lied and there were no WMDs ... so let's elect Kerry ... who loves to allow socialist/communist governments to come in and fix countries up. Heck ... Kerry liked the idea of North Viet Nam taking over the management of South Viet Nam. So what if hundreds of thousands died and millions suffered ... those people don't count either ... since they probably are sub-human too.)
Am I missing something here? I think the Democrats - who worried about genocide in Africa ... are the biggest damned bigots in the world. They ignore the plight of millions of people (in Iraq) ...while a madman collets billions of petrodollars and uses the money to build arms, aid terrorists, and whether or not he actually had WMDs .. he has had them, and he would get them again if the Democrats were in control
The Democrats disgust me ... their policies are either stupid or racist .... or both!!!
Mike
To most of your post: Bump. (I will not comment your thoughts about Dems, because this forbids me my agenda of not interfering too much into US politics)
Still, it gives a bad feeling, and I will stay by my imagination that this war was fought unnecessarily early, considering the preparations of the after-war-time and the preparations of the (international) public. Nobody wants to be fooled.