[Cacophonous]

Thanks for the link, but it's nothing I haven't read before, and I'm still not convinced. As I said, I support the effort for economic reasons, but we apparently are not supposed to that. Leaves a fella conflicted.

And all that aside, I DO pray for our soldiers. I have many, many friends in the service, and wish them the best.

[Anamensis]

For me, even if we never prove massive Iraqi involvement in 9/11, I consider Saddam a problem linked to 9/11 because of the remarks Osama bin Laden made shortly after the attack. He said Al Qaeda targetted America for three reasons (and all three of them lead back to Saddam one way or another.)

1. OBL wants American troops out of Saudi Arabia. But of course, we were there because Saddam invaded Kuwait and was fixing to take Saudi.

2. OBL ranted about the UN sanctions against Iraq. Again, done because of Saddam, necessary because of Saddam.

3. OBL of course hates our support of Israel and wants a Palestinian state. But there will never be a Palestinian state as long as they keep terror-bombing Israeli civilians, and they will keep terror-bombing as long as Saddam pays them $25,000 a pop.

So to me, Salman Pak aside, Ramsi Yousef aside, Saddam is a virus weakening our system while we fight cancer, so he's gotta go. JMHO.