Are you sure your name isn't "meanie".
You are right--the quote was out of context but my response was to your whole comment. How can you compare Saddams intentions to the intentions of the library? How can you defend a despicable tyrranical dictator who has proven that he can mass murder with WMD? The media won't forgive ARnold for groping 30 years ago yet you and the media are willing to forgive Saddam and assume that now he has found religion.
Talk about taking words out of context--Bush said we should never wait for the imminent threat, not that we were at imminent threat. If you are so convinced that if Saddam should decide to share his dirty secrets with the terrorists that he would have plenty of time to develop the weapons and that we in turn would have plenty of time to defend ourselves then explain why Saddam would not come clean and let the world know how he destroyed the weapons. If you are so convinced that Saddam meant no ill will, why did he kill the scientists that spoke with the inspectors, if you are so convinced that Saddam meant no ill then why did he bury all those planes? If you are so convinced that Saddam meant no ill then why after the inspectors said there were no weapons his son in law shows them where they are (oops, I guess the UN just did not look there). No, meanie, once a snake always a snake no matter how much you think a snake would be a cute pet.
Saddaam was/is a nutball and murdering, thieving tyrant. Now that this is out of the way, let's look at the strategic importance of having our forces tied down in Iraq and unable to be used to further our forcefulness in foreign policy. Does it make you feel safer to know that NK can thumb their nose at us and continue with their nuclear program because they know we are tied down with Iraq? The same can be said with Iran, with Russia continuing to support their program in defiance of the US.
The big picture shows that Russia and China are the biggest supporters of terrorism in the world. They use client states such as Iran, Iraq, NK, Sudan, Kosovo, to further their campaign against the United States. Moving to Central and South America, they are involved up to their eyeballs in Cuba, Venzuela, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and we set here letting the takeover continue while arguing over WMD's being found or missing in Iraq. Iraq is the perfect diversion.
We sleep while the rest of the world moves on into the Islamic-commie partnership of tyranny, wasting our resources on a straw-man. We proclaim that a former KGB head is a decent and honorable man which we can trust. How in the hell do you suppose he got to be head of the KGB? China is our friendly trading partner, and using our trade deficit to build up their fleet and install more missiles against Tiawan.
If we and our leaders don't wake up soon we will be conversing in Russian and Chinese dialects. This is my opinion and I grant you I am not an anti-war bigot supporting the socialist take-over but am worried about the future of our country. There is too much ideological chatter and not enough thinking at the present time. A house divided will be a weaker house if we don't get our head out of our proverbial ass.