[traditionalist]

Okay, but what's to stop Al Qaeda from using the weapons on Saddam once they're done with us? Recall, Saddam wants them "imposing their tyranny on the rest of the world" about as much as we do. At most, he wants to use them as pawns. Given them WMD would give them more power than it would be in his best interests for them to have.

Yes, we confront Islamic radicals now, but Saddam is not one of them.

[hchutch]

It's been explained elsewhere.

He gives them the nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons to use on us. If we act now, and take him out, then they have to find someone else to do that, and it's going to take a lot of time for them to do that.

It's very simple. We either act now, at a small price, or we act later, at a great cost.