SH had been supporting terrorist for years.
Had he provided even a small amount of bio weapon material to the terrorist the terrorist could have brought this country to it’s knees.
You recall what happened with the small amount of anthrax sent through the mail?
A single quart of anthrax would have been enough to spread across the entire country and then some.
Just a few months ago everyone was talking about the WMD’s Syria has as coming from Iraq, maybe you forgot.
Personally I’m glad Bush didn’t take a chance and wait to respond until after an attack which would have made 9/11 look like a walk in the park.
Yes, and SH had slaughtered and tortured his own people as well as the kurds. The problem with Iraq was when the bureaucrats like L. Paul Bremer decided to ‘nation build’. That’s where we started to lose it. We should have stopped after we got Saddam and then left. Take out the dictator and leave and tell the Iraqis they are on their own. We will take a percentage of their oil as payment and be on our merry way.
The left did not help our cause with their constant attacks on Bush and the military.
It's often forgotten (or intentionally overlooked) in discussions like these, but there was a conversation with Vice-President Cheney that Bob Woodward reported in Bush At War (2002).
Woodward wrote that, shortly after 9/11/01, he asked Cheney about the source of the anthrax attacks. Cheney responded "We believe we know who did it. But we're not ready to do anything about it yet."
Recall that, at the time, it was widely speculated that the anthrax powder had come from Iraq -- but, curiously, the FBI (i.e., the administration) kept deflecting the conversation toward a domestic source.
As disinformation, this approach would be consistent with "We believe we know who did it. But we're not ready to do anything about it yet."