Thoughtful post........
Kholt, we invaded Iraq because Iraq combined seven unique elements not found anywhere else on earth. It wasn't one factor, but the combination of many factors which demanded we act.
1. A tyrant who had killed hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people.
2. A tryant who had demonstrated a willingness to invade other countries in the region in order to control and destabilize the area.
3. A supporter of terrorists, who quite likely would funnel money and resources to elements of Al Queada and others.
4. A harbinger of WMD who had demonstrated a willingness to use them on his own people, as well as his neighbors. Whether he was in the process of building nuclear weapons or not, the likelyhood is he would have gotten hold of them in the not too distant future, where are choices to remove him would be severely reduced.
5. A dictator, unwilling to advance democracy.
6. A dictator who was sitting on a vast reserve of oil which finances all of the above.
7. A dictator who despised the United States because we humiliated him by booting his army out of Iraq <?Kuwait?>.
There is no place, no region, and no nation on earth where these same factors exist. Bringing justice and peace to the middle east first demanded the removal of Saddam Hussein and his Bathist regime. Due to these reasons, and many more political in nature, such as U.N. resolutions being violated over a decade. We could, and we needed to act.
The fall of the dictator of Iraq will be the catalyst which changes the middle east and brings millions toward the sanity of civilization where killing people with suicide bombs isn't something to be admired. It may take another two decades, but we are now on that road. Without the removal of Saddam, the road would have been a waste of time and energy.
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