I have nothing left to prove. The Gulf War was a turkey-shoot. But the primary objective was not achieved. This madman is still in power, and it appears that some of you boa clad limp-wrists will want to see NBC used in our country from Saddam before you make a move. There would be your so-called "proof," at the expense of what, a million American lives?
Some deal.
Sovereignty? So, was Israel wrong when it bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981? Did it violate Iraq's "sovereignty?" It has intelligence that showed the Iraqis were trying to develop weapons there.
We have intelligence that Hussein is developing WMD again, but that's not proof enough for you.
There's just cause here. All you have is your precious but inept ideology.
We have a dangerous problem on our hand. We need to fix it. And we need to realize that we are in new territory for the world and for the United States. The fact that we have never struck first in a situation like this is irrelevant, I'm afraid.
Bush and Rumsfeld are doing their job pretty well. As Ann Coulter would say, the grown-ups are in charge now.
The reason why most Americans in the polls agree with Bush and Rumsfeld is because most Americans don't live within the beltway. They don't have the ineffectual, pass-the-buck mentality of the typical bureaucrat. They specifically realize that "statesmanship" is not the important issue at hand. (A lot of high-ranking military types, including even Colin Powell, have been conditioned to misapprehend their own roles.)