[wayoverontheright]

Are we doing it for oil? Doubtful. Mideast reorganization? As a result, maybe, but as a cause? Because 'Saddam tried to kill my father'? Inasmuch as he didn't, doubtful. For Israel? Remote chance at best. To save the world from what Saddam might do? That seems to be what we are falling back on. Nothing else fits right now.

Exactly

We were not attacked because of an abundance of anger, but because of a deficiency of respect on the part of the entire Arab-Islamic world. Unfortunately, you do not get from disrespect to respect without an element of fear. The region's biggest and baddest must be annihilated, summarily defeated, yes humiliated, the same conditions which eliminated Japanese terror in WWII.

To save the world from what Saddam might do?

Think about it, all he has to do is provide WMD to those who would willingly bring them to our shores, he doesn't have to DO anything, and he knows it. Why can't the left understand this?

[gcruse]

I think it falls back onto the earlier premise. People are not comfortable with attacking someone for what they might do.