Which country has a standing army... Iraq or Saudia Arabia ?
Well, crouching, but Iraq.
Which country used chemical weapons on their own countrymen ... Iraq or Saudia Arabia ?
Iraq, that would be.
Which country invaded two neighboring countries.... Iraq or Saudia Arabia ?
That would be Iraq, if I'm not mistaken.
Which country lobbed scud missiles toward Israel during the Gulf War.... Iraq or Saudia Arabia ?
I'm guessing Iraq, here.
Which country has been trying to secure the components to make weapons of mass destruction ... Iraq or Saudia Arabia ?
Everybody?
I'm no fan of the Saudis either but they're pretty impotent when compared to Saddam.
In a war of terror, military impotence is not necessarily a crippling thing.
The 15 Saudis who brought 9/11 to us show what asymmetrical warfare is going to be like.
The Presidnet has the evidence he needs and in this case he does't need the approval of congress to strike.
What evidence does he have that Iraq is preparing to attack the US?
And, as the man said, Israel is perfectly capable of taking out her own trash.
No where in that list do I see an imminent threat to the United States of America -- Bush sure as heck needs to get approval of Congress, for it is they who control the purse strings, fund operations, provide the bullets and the butter.
We were told from DAY ONE that Bin Laden and his ilk were responsible for Sept. 11, (this Hussein complicity now being discussed all these months later is coming across as an after thought), that we were going to go to war to rid the world of his crud. Suddenly now, for the good of posterity, we are to drop our hunt for ol' Osammy, take the boys out of Afghanistan and head on to Iraq to rid the world of his crud.
I for one don't give a fig about the UN, don't require their ok for any of this. But we start a war on a sovereign nation, I want it done by-the-book, that being by the strictures of the USCon.