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Then, particularly since you are so verbose, 'splain to us why the Bush administration took off after a toothless, secular, despot of a ruined semi-nation instead of pursuing bin Laden or extinguishing the Wahhabi root of the terrorist plague.

Toothless?? What are you talking about?? He invaded another country and when we invaded had the strongest army in the ME. He was also thought to have WMD in large quantites and we still don't know where they went. You are insulting some very decent people on this board. Why??

Pray for W and Our Troops

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He invaded another country and when we invaded had the strongest army in the ME. He was also thought to have WMD in large quantites and we still don't know where they went. You are insulting some very decent people on this board. Why??

Good grief, my presumably conservative friend.

At the time of our preemptive attack Saddam had been bled dry by over ten years of our blockade and fly-overs.

He most certainly did not have the strongest defense in the region (probably the weakest).

The administration has now finally abandoned all of its silly pretenses for invasion and we are left with the final excuse "democracy for the world". Ready or not.