Actually, I believe the Bush Doctrine was the right thing to do. I believe that Saddam Hussein was giving safe harbor to terrorists (why was there an airplane fuselage in the northern part of the country, was it used for hijack training)?
I believe that the doctrine of "fight them over there as a military action instead of fighting them over here as a police action" was the right thing to do. We know how our left-wing politicians treated capture terrorists, with a lawyer actually passing notes to a prisoner.
I do not believe that our troops were terrorizing the Iraqi people, I believe Hussein's Fedayeen Saddam was terrorizing people, wearing masks and pulling people off the streets for torture and rape. I believe that Hussein's sons were terrorizing people. I believe Hussein had chemical WMD (Bob Arnott reported on toxic water in the Euphrates River until he was pulled), but they were hidden and secreted away to Syria after we liberated the country from Hussein. I do not believe the "dual use" excuse when there was little evidence of a burgeoning industry.
Was Hussein directly involved in 9/11? Probably not. Did he support them, probably so, with a safe haven for training and supply. He already invaded Kuwait once for their oil fields.
-PJ
Saddam was a U.S pal before he was an enemy. Can’t you just admit that America has done on occasions what it accuses other nations of doing. It’s what big powers have always done. It’s not a virtue contest.