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The point is not what Iraq will do directly with WMD, against Israel or the US. It is the fact he may make them available to terrorists, such as Saudi/other islamist terrorists. He is and has been given adequate chances, to be rid of the weapons, per UN treaty, but continues to play games.

That isn't an acceptable situation, after 9/11/01 plain and simple.

I expect the US wishes to get positioned in Iraq, for whatever staging is required for Saudi. I further expect the mullah government of Iran to fall, to a democratic, secular regime...especially if the US/Britain take down Iraq.

I'm not persuaded by Saddam being non-islamist; for the WMD threat overrides everything else. He shot missiles into Israel, attempting to start a major regional war. He is not the safe & sane guy you present him to be.

How about Saudi as a conquered territory-protectorate of the US? Of the UN? Another 9/11/01 and 15 out of 19 would seal that deal, I expect. So it is in the interest of Saudi leaders, that it does NOT happen again, or they are finished as rulers.

But the muslims are crazy, can't think straight. Insanity is doing the same thing over and ove, expecting different results. Witness Arafat.

I expect another 9/11/01 in a couple of years. We may head it off, but they will probably try.

At this stage, Bush gives the opponents a chance to fix the problems first. That is "fair" and "moral." If they refuse or fail, it is fair and moral to prevent terrorist threats, against ourselves or our friends.

Never said he was safe...quite the contrary...but in truth he is sane, sane as a fox. He can be bought out, like he was before. Better him then a fractured hell hole the area will become. As for giving weapons to terrorists...keep in mind that Al Quida was also against Iraq and Lybia (Quidafi is also a socialist...why all his body guards are women)...Saudi Arabia would be a lot more likely a candidate for that. As for shooting into Isreal, it was an attempt to break the coalition, and even then he knew the threshold he wouldn't dare cross. Even Hitler wouldn't cross that threshold. But the Wahhibists would.