If WMD is the issue then I would point to the utterly insane regime of North Korea. This is a nation that sends ships and troops to probe the lines of South Korea on a regular basis. Just a month ago they sent in ships to attack South korean vessals. They have sent in Commandos to murder South Korean politicians in the last several years! We are talking about a leader who had orderd the kidnapping of South Korean Movie starlets he was in love with! He has launched missles over Japan and is devoloping the capability to launch missles to California! And what are we doing? We are helping North Korea build nuclear plants. This is a regime 100 times more closed than Iraq and we are helping him build nuke reactors. This is the same clown Bush Identified as part of the axis of evil but yet we continue to "engage in dialouge with". Many countries have WMD. The whole thrust of your arguement is that we are picking on Iraq, when you say that Iraq is not a threat. Tell, me why the United States government would single out Iraq to pick on, in your opinion.
Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Eygpt- these are our enemies- Islam is the enemy. But we want to placate both the corrupt dictators of these lands seething with Islamic radicalism and our own population wich demands blood. Thus- we have Iraq - which had less to do with 9/11 than did your local Arab 7/11 cashier.
You would have us take on all the Islamic nations at the same time? Not me. The area needs to be destablized, yes, divided. This is a war that truely needs to be played on all fronts...using psychological, rhetorical, financial and military. A head on collision in an all out war with all the Islamic is not in our interest today.
And nothing would unite Islam more than us attacking the most innocent nation first. Do you not realize that we are the Soviet Union in that region? We support and prop up corrupt regimes all over the Arab world to stave off Radical Islam rule. We support the Mullahs of the house of Suad, the corrupt leaders of Eygpt, and the rest because the popular opinion is totally against us. We are like the Soviets in Eastern Europe. We support an elite and repressive structure in the Mideast that Al QUeada and the rest of Radial Islam capiralizes on. They love the fact that we support the House of Saud, or Jordan, Or Murbarhak. To Islamic radicals- we prop up oppressive governments with aid all throughout their lands. And they are right. And to top it off we support "jews" and Isreal.
I support Isreal and will always. But to attack Iraq is insane. And it makes no sense. It may be gratifying in some cathartic sense but it will not solve Islamic terrorism. It will only ger worse. We are ppicking out Iraq because it is easy. Our elite doesn't have a relatinship with them. Our Foggy bottom diplomats are used to dealing with Saudis and not Iraqis. We don't have a press anymore but press handout readers. ANd our policy wonks have always wanted a war long before 9/11 with Iraq as a means of establishing their "mideast western Athens" in Islamic culture.