How will invading Iraq deter Saudi Arabia from funding more terrorists? How will having occupation forces in Iraq deter Iran when those forces will be in range of Iranian missiles?
Second, the assumption that our military can only handle one Wisconsin-sized nation at a time is absolutely ridiculous.
Occupation will be a huge burden which is different from invading. Our defeat of Iraq was easy last time and should be even easier this time, but once the troops are there we will have no choice but to supress the Kurds and Shiites or watch the country dissolve into civil war. Leaving the country in chaos is not in our interests.
sacrificing national security for political reasons is exactly the same moronic decision that the Democrats are supporting. Are you falling for their copy points?
I would love to see the reasons for attacking being clearly spelled out so Republicans would not have to spend any political capital on this attack. The pro-attack side has only put out the same old pre-9/11 message with a new post-9/11 frosting. Basically Saddam is evil and has WMD and oh yeah, he probably wants to give them to terrorists. That's an incredibly shallow argument.
Gee, I don't know, maybe the fear that the same will happen to them? Sheesh.
Occupation will be a huge burden which is different from invading.
Please cite the source where the President is quoted as saying that we are going to be occupying Iraq. All we want is that regime out of power. Iraq can take it from there for all we care. There's more talk about rebuilding Iraq afterwards, just like we created industrial powerhouses Germany and Japan, than there is of occupying Iraq, like... ummm, like... errr, help me out here, who have we occupied and refused all requests to leave? In the last century? Hm?
Basically Saddam is evil and has WMD and oh yeah, he probably wants to give them to terrorists. That's an incredibly shallow argument.
"Basically" to make your point, you ignore Saddam's murderous past, his two invasions of neighboring countries, his open threats against the US, his firing on US and UK forces, his payments to the families of suicide-bombers, his harboring of known terrorists (Abu Nidal ring any bells?), his acceptance of terrorist training camps in Iraq, and his history of using WMD's on innocent civilians. How shallow is that?