And we don't know that Iraq has not attacked us. The 1993 bombers of the WTC had Iraqi and stolen Kuwaiti passports. Now who had the world's greatest supply of stolen Kuwaiti passports around 1993?
"Iraq has never attacked the United States," you say. Yeah, well, and Al Quaeda didn't attack the World Trade Center until, well, they attacked the World Trade Center. The governments point is that saying, "Well they've never attacked us, so we can't do anything about it" is a prescription for sitting around and waiting until we get hit again. We tried playing defense against terrorism, and we got 9/11. Were going on offense, now, because, after all, the best defense is a good offense.
Even if we were compicit in arming Hussein, that rather increases our responsibility to get rid of him. Past imprudence doesn't justify present inaction.
We have been bombing Iraq for the last 12 years to prevent Saddam from commiting genocide in the no fly zone. Ask the Kurds of Kurdistan if they mind our bombing, or if they prefer to be gassed again.
And by the way, was the Japanese Rape of Nanking right before Pearl Harbor where 370,000 defenseless Chinese citizens were slaughtered and 80,000 women raped also part of FDR's secret plan to make the peace-loving Japanese seem warlike?