[Carry_Okie]

I thought Powell's speech perfectly adequate to proving whether Iraq has violated UN resolutions and is producing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction along with delivery systems appropriate for use by terrorists here in the USA. However, IMO, he did not make an adequate case (for political purposes) that Iraq is an immediate threat to USE those weapons against the USA or likely to pass them on to Al Quada.

If the UN fails to act to enforce its resolutions, It should not fall upon the United States to serve as a unilateral enforcer of UN resolutions. The US must be seen to be acting in its OWN self defense against Iraq as a certain aggressor, sovereign nation to sovereign nation, not as a proxy for the UN.

The thing that mystifies me is that, as I understand it, a case for such an assertion exists. Iraq was an abettor of both the Oklahoma City bombing and the first WTC attack. Both were terrorist attacks, both assisted by Iraq. Those facts establish that Iraq would indeed supply Al Quaeda with WMD and thus closes the loop on the justification to attack Iraq as an immediate threat to United States citizens.

Why isn't the Administration making THAT case?

[bybybill]

They aren`t tying Iraq to OK City or the first WTC attack cause it would muddy the water and they don`t need it.

Just wait a little longer, Sadammnnn is finished. Our guys are doing good.