Pure straw man.
It's good to see we disagree. On the reasons for the war, as offered by Bush, they have been, as you know, all over the lot. They spent a very long time spinning the 9-11 connection to Saddam, leaked stuff to the papers trying to damage the serious intelligence reports which said there was none, etc. Hopefully, they've given it up.
On the Al Q comment, your observation that Saddam and bin Laden "will" cooperate tactically, who knows. And it's hardly worth typing, that a future guess is certainly not a reason to invade Iraq.
So, finally, I gather you are pinning your argument on Saddam's refusal to disarm. That's hardly even close to a reason to invade. It is certainly a reason to keep him pinned in, to make the sanctions smarter, etc. But not to invoke the devastation of war. Not at all.
As for using Iraq as some measurement of the UN's effectiveness, let's just, for the sake of argument, say it is as you type. Wouldn't it be wise to look at the entire picture; not simply this portion. |
