[dragnet2]

1.Failure to comply with the cease fire agreement of the first gulf war.

2 Failure to comply with weapons inspectors.

3 Continued development of WMD programs. 4 Failure to disclose fate or whereabouts of documented banned weapons.

5 Support of terrorist organizations.

6 Aggressive actions against their neighbors.

7 Aggressive actions against US assets.

8 Genocide against it’s own population.

You say this is the reason we went into Iraq... OK.

But haven't we addressed all of the issue above. If not, which of the above have we not met? If you could be specific.

[mnehring]

#5 is still open- because the specific government that supported terrorist has been overthrown, but we need to ensure that the new government doesn’t fall into the same pattern.

We also have the consequence (positive) that we have been able to define and control the battlefield, and draw jihadists to a battlefield we defined under our terms versus running around all over the world.