[traditionalist]

The likely provider of that material is Iraq. We need to take him out before he gives the terrorists something new to play with.

Given the fact that Bin Laden and radical Islamists seek the overthrow of secularist regimes like Saddam's, why would Saddam given them such potent weapons? Would he not be afraid that they would use them on him?

[hchutch]

Because they hate us more than they hate Saddam.

Saddam is, as much as nobody wishes to admit it, still nominally Moslem. We, though, are infidels. Furthermore, we stand in the way of them imposing their tyranny on the rest of the world.

Do we confront them now, when the victory is certain and the cost relatively small, or do we wait until we are locked in a mortal combat? I choose to do it now. Before we find out that, God forbid, they do have weapons of mass destruction.