As this report makes clear, though, Saddam sponsored terrorist groups outside of Iraq as well as conducted terror inside Iraq with his own security forces. He made himself into a malevolent force in the region, and he represented a threat to American and Western interests in the region. Had we let the sanctions regime collapse — which was what was happening when we invaded — Saddam would have restarted his WMD programs and would have continued in his ambitions to make himself the leader of a unified and hostile Arab state.
They save the best for last I see!
They will, I predict, use this to initiate a new round of impeachment rhetoric against President Bush and, by association, John McCain.
Where are the documents showing Saddam going AFTER Al Qaeda? That is the Left’s excuse, that Saddam “knew how” to shut down the terrorists in Iraq.
So where is the evidence of it?
Or was it a terror campaign where he cut off suspected political prisoners hands and raped and disembowled their wives in front of them at Abu Ghraib and that harshness was sufficient to keep the acts of terrorism down?
Which is it?
Yeah, he went home evry night and pet his dog, played with his kids, kissed his wife, and had an adult beverage, just like everybody else.
We'll just have to let them find someone who is an evil, poison gasser of babies, stealer of money from his people, genocidal terrorist-supporting ba$tard, and we can install him as the new leader of Iraq when Obama pulls out our troops. There. Now the world loves us again!