Posted By:
ernest reyesJohn:
I'm increasingly frustrated by the rhetoric justifying the attack on Iraq.
1) What does it matter that every intelligence operation in the world thought he had chemical weapons? He certainly didn't have the means to attack us. Afterall, ultimately, our foreign policy, at its core, should be based on our security only. He was in a box, as they say.
2) The older weapons found were weapons we are responsible for. Remember Saddam was our ally first, and we gave him chemical weapons. On top of that, those weapons are essentially useless now. BTW, we did not find any labs large enough to make chemical weapons in large enough supply to go to war with. They simply did not exist. You are wrong, they did not have the means to reconstitute this weapon program. That is a farce and the evidence gathered since Saddams fall bears that out. Sure, they had the technical know how to make the weapons, but so does half the countries on earth. Chemistry is not a secret.
3) The so called terrorist training camps where found in Northern Iraq under the protection of the Kurds. (BTW, they had this camp to fight Turkey who they commit terrorist attacks on) That is a fact. You have to remember that between the 1st and 2nd wars in Iraq, British and American planes where bombing the northern and southern part of Iraq (literally) on a daily basis. Saddam effectively had very little control of those areas, or control on any bases there. Remember the embargo. Remember how a bunch of people where complaining about how it was hurting more Iraqi children then acting as a vice grip on Saddam. Not only that, it makes no logical sense for Saddam, who was a egocentric dictator to welcome Al-Quada type terrorist in Iraq. Remember, Al Queda's goals is a pan-Islamic State which would mean overthrowing every monarchy and government in the Middle East. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, etc. have no interest in losing their sovereignty.
The simple fact remains there is no logical reason why attacking Iraq would have advanced our desired goal of defeating terrorism. Afganistan and Pakistan (and it financial backers within the House of Saud) is where the real war is.
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