Which gave us, ultimately, 9/11 (not, as Charlie Rangel keeps calling it, 911), which changed everything.
It amazes me that the left just doesnt grasp how much the world changed on that day. Regardless of whether Hussein had anything to do with 9/11, he was doomed the second that first plane hit the tower. Why? Because a regime like his just eminates evil, and is a beacon for all of those who oppose democracy and liberty. A magnet for terror and after 9/11, regimes like his cannot just be "contained", which until then was the liberal policy. "He is only gassing his own people, so we will huff and puff and bomb sporadically, and that will contain his evil" was the Clinton mantra. Containment as a policy went out of the window at 0847 on the morning of 11 September, 2001. We hate it for the loss of life and the gross affront to liberty and freedom, the Dems and libs hate it because it exposed their lassez-faire attitude toward monsters like Hussein and Bin-Ladin, and because they now have to justify their appeasement..