And old Saddam did NOT have weapons of mass destruction. However hard the Americans were seeking for them before and after 'Shoch and Awe", they haven't found any.
Not having the bomb -- that is what was his undoing.
Not watching the CNN, I don't understand what Saddam refused. His country was searched for weapons both before and after the Second Gulf War, as I have already said.
And, however bad the Ba'athist regimes be, they are a kind of jerks different from Islamic terrorists. They are enemies. It took an American occupation to turn Iraq into a nest of terrorists.
Another coincidence: the Talibs in their last year supressed the heroin manufacturing. After the liberation of Afghanistan it renewed.
Here, let me give you the condensed version...........
We didn't take out Saddam, just for WMDs.
When a war is won, the losing side signs a peace accord/treaty. Should that treaty's terms are then broken by the loser, the war is still on. Not only did Saddam break almost every single term of that treaty, but he broke/ignored the SEVENTEEN UN resolutions, it had agreed to. Ergo, the GULF WAR was still on!
Shock and Awe was what WE called the bombing of Baghdad; not searching for WMDs.
His country was not allowed, by Saddam, to be thoroughly searched.
Saddam harbored and helped terrorists. He paid off the families of Palestine suicide bombers, as well.
You're just sore that the Afghan and Taliban forces beat the USSR troops; but American forces beat them all...just admit it.