Quote: "We have the luxury of waiting for history to prove us correct on WMD."
I don't agree with that at all. If we are correct on the WMD issue, than this means that these weapons are in someone else's hands; one of the very reaons why we went into Iraq was to prevent these WMDs from getting into these hands. It does no good for history to prove us right if we still have to face this threat sometime in the future.
Quote: "We don't have that luxury to when it comes to Iran. We have to act now and we need all the help we can get, help which will be slower to come if all we seem to care about is winning the WMD debate."
Excuse me...but it isn't the "debate" that I am worried about winning; this is still a war, with other enemies who now have access to these WMDs. And whether you like it or not, this WMD debate has diminished US credibility. Regaining this credibility is very important if we are going to expect other nations to follow us in the future WOT...including any actions we may take in Iran.
Hell, one of the reasons we are even having to deal with Iran is because the so-called allies you want us to rely on have been double-dealing with these very nations. Just like with Saddam, the Soviets and French have been providing them with the material to get this far.
To continue to ignore this duplicity is nothing but appeasement that allows them to think they can continue at will. Are we going to have the Russians and French in Iran prior to any war there...just like Iraq, so they can destroy or move the materials and make us look like liars...again?
It is past time that we start acknowledging how we got here to begin with...or we're going to continue ending up here, over and over again. In fact, this has all the same makings of another Iraq-Redux, were everyone "talks" about doing something about Iran, but leaving the dirty work to the US so when the dust settles, the US is again, left looking like the aggressor for prohibiting the poor Iranians from developing legitimate nuclear energy.
Call me paranoid, but there is a sincere desire by other nations to cripple the US, even at the expense of other rising threats. And since when can't we chew bubble-gum and walk at the same time...especially since Iran is very much a part of this "WMD debate." Sadly, I don't think we have the luxury of waiting for history to prove us right...especially when history is overwhelmingly written by liberals.
I'm not say don't do anything about the WMDs. We know exactly where they are and have known since they were moved there -- Syria. And we are doing something about it (booting them out of Lebanon, destabilizing their ruling class, shrinking their influence in the region).
This thread was about why the administration is not talking about the WMDs, not about why the administration isn't doing anything about them. We do a lot of things without proclaiming them to the world, and my argument is that this is one of the things it does no good to talk about right now.