[Jolly Rodgers]

...and who is connected to the savages who killed 3000 people on 9-11.

Only our allies are connected to bin Laden and al-Qaida. There is zero evidence linking the Ba'athist regime to the September 11th attacks. Anyone still pushing that line of propaganda is seriously dishonest.

You want links to al-Qaida? Look to Saudi Arabia. Look to Pakistan. Look to the independent zone in northern Iraq. Look to Kosovo and Bosnia. And if it's terrorist training camps you want to point at? You would do best to point at US flight schools.

No, you can't justify invading and occupying Iraq on the backs of the dead in New York. That just doesn't wash.

[JasonC]

It is not revenge, it is foresight. Saddam supports terrorists and has for years. He funds them abroad. He shoot at us regularly. And he develops WMDs, even risking his regime to keep them. We see no reason to wait around for the three to come together in a WMD terrorist attack. Perhaps he is about to become a little angel. Perhaps he is too scared to try such a thing (when he isn't too scared to get himself killed and lose his regime trying to get WMDs). Perhaps we are overly cautious. So the freak what? What is the downside? A murderous dictator nobody can possibly defend is removed, but it turns out to have been an act of altruism instead of self-defense. What a tragedy.