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There is plenty of evidence directly connecting Saddam to several direct attacks on America, including (but probably not limited to) the assassination attempt on former President Bush, the original 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and some (if not all) of the anthrax letters mailed shortly after 9/11.

Once Iraq has descended into chaos and we give up and leave, the religious nuts that end up ruling it will make Saddam look like a nice guy. Those are the people behind the two WTC attacks and this war will strengthen them in two primary ways: they will have more people joining them, and they will have a base of operations to work out of that may include a large part of the Middle East and South Asia (Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc).

I worry about instability, unpredictability, popular uprisings such as voting for Islamic law in the new Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and elsewhere.

Once Iraq has descended into chaos and we give up and leave, the religious nuts that end up ruling it will make Saddam look like a nice guy. Those are the people behind the two WTC attacks and this war will strengthen them in two primary ways: they will have more people joining them, and they will have a base of operations to work out of that may include a large part of the Middle East and South Asia (Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc).

After we kill/arrest Saddam and his family and top henchmen, we're not just going to "give up and leave". While no concrete plans for administration have been made just yet, I believe that a U.S. or NATO general will end up temporarily administering the government (like MacArthur in Japan), with a popularly elected government to come within the next 2-5 years. Heck, they may even decide to split up Iraq into two or three separate sovereign countries. But we're going to have a military presence there for a while. And once we are in control, Iraq will be permantly removed as a possible base of any terrorist operations. And the Islamofascists won't be strengthened by our victory any more than Al-Queda has been strengthened by our operations in Afghanistan.

You think that doing nothing to Saddam will cut down on those who want to join the terrorists? If anything, it would make things worse. For eight years, this country has been attacked and those who were responsible were never brought to justice....don't you think that makes this country weaker if we do nothing? They see us as weak and unable or not interested in keeping ourselves safe and that creates the illusion that it is ok to attack the United States cause they are not going to do anything about it anyway.

Do you for one minute believe that the countries these terrorists are from sit around and debate the attacks done to the United States. I don't think their are those who march and protest the attacks on our country....if given a chance to completely wipe us out I know they would do it!