My bottom - line opinion? Hussein might have had something to do with Black Tuesday, and that's, by God, ALL I NEED. Anybody who even THOUGHT of helping out the animals who pulled that one off, or CELEBRATED them (that would be ...SADDAM!) need to die, soonest. No mercy, no quarter, no prisoners. Only by being so ruthlessly focused can we hope to put some "terror" into the hearts of any future piles of fertilizer, and some second thoughts into their heads.
If every potential terrorist in the world KNEW that attacking the U.S. would attract a fleet of B-52's loaded with Daisy Cutters and Thermobaric Bombs to anyone who MAY have helped, this nonsense would stop, one way or another.
And before anyone starts that "what about the Saudis" line, rest assured that the reason they fear our toppling Hussein is because they can foresee themselves being dragged to the block by their own people, after they get a look at the new, U.S. - built democratic Iraqui Republic. Them and the Iranians will go on their own, as soon as they get an example to follow. Then, we just clean up the remaining holdouts (Syria and Libya, COME ON DOWN!!) and it's over.
Difficult? Long - term? YES. So was WWII and the Cold War, but we hung in there and won those, too. Our only other choice is to continue to endure these attacks, until we get nuked ourselves.
Oh, and I love those blaming US for the attacks AGAINST us. I guess if a woman dresses provocatively, she deserves to get raped. Pathetic logic. An apt metaphor, however, as the terrs hate us because we look so much better compared to anything THEIR own culture has built.
