[PatrioticAmerican]

"actual attacks carried out against the territory of the United States"

What about the almost daily missile attacks on our aircraft flying the no-fly zone?

What about Iraq's promise to destroy us and their attemtps to obtain arms that can?

What about Iraq's supplying terrorists with weapons and training?

[rightwing2]

There have been very few missile attacks on our aircraft bombing Iraq. Then again, if our planes were not bombing Iraq, Iraq would have no need to defend itself by trying to shoot them down. Look the bottom line is that the Administration has no business putting our pilots in harms way by asking them to engage in provocative enforcement of the so-called UN no fly zones which are not UN no fly zones at all but US no fly zones since no UN resolution covers them. To call Iraqi attempts to shoot down US and UK warplanes bombing their country "hostile acts" is extremely Orwellian to say the least. Iraq has not promised to destroy us. They have only promised to destroy any US forces sent to invade their country. Again not very provocative since their statements are entirely in self-defense.

As for Iraq's alleged supplying of terrorists with weapons and training that is entirely unsupported by the evidence as British intelligence confirms. They have said over and over again that there are no real links between Al Queda and Saddam Hussein because there is a lot of bad blood between Saddam and Islamic terrorists since they threaten his hold on power as a secular dictator especially those like Al Queda whose principal sponsor is Iraq's "former" enemy the terrorist Islamicist Republic of Iran. If the President were serious about fighting the war against terrorism, why doesn't he invade them?