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Bush interrupted Saddam's comeback on the world stage.
A beneficial side effect was the dismantling of Libya's WMD program.

Containment of Iraq was failing more each day.

1. The oil-for-food program was corrupt
2. The weapons inspections were a farce
3. There are indications that Saddam was co-operating with Qadhafi on programs to develop weapons in Libya
4. US and allied planes were targeted
5. Uninspected flights to Baghdad gutted the sanctions
6. Terrorists were training in Iraq
7. Saddam supported terrorism - paying $25,000 to each family of a suicide bomber and $10,000 to the families of other Palestinians killed in the intifadah.
8. Saddam created the Jerusalem Army [the Jaysh al-Quds] to "liberate" Jerusalem
9. Saddam refused to destroy his Samoud 2 missiles which violated the UN mandate
10. Saddam brutalized our fellow human beings

Saddam was thumbing his nose at decent people as he rewarded his collaborators.

1,251 posted on 09/05/2007 7:27:33 PM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53))

Another big cheer for Ron Paul!

1,270 posted on 09/05/2007 7:28:23 PM PDT by NapkinUser (Tom Tancredo or Ron Paul in 2008!)

1,322 posted on 09/05/2007 7:31:11 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)

Can you say “rationalization”?

1,706 posted on 09/05/2007 8:05:54 PM PDT by Dutch Tulip

Even according to a BBC analyst, Saddam was attempting to make a comeback on the world stage

Analysis: Saddam steps up defiance, 1 December, 2000, By BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy

2,060 posted on 09/06/2007 5:12:51 AM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53))

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