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Politics : The Castle
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4244)12/3/2004 11:56:53 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
There were no WMD and there was no link to aggression (eg Al Qaeda)) against us.

There where signs of WMD programs in a stalled status that could have been restarted as soon as sanctions ended. There were links to Al Qaeda but they where very limited. I'll even say they where probably not enough to go to war over. There were stronger ties to other terrorists. There was the fact that the original war had never been fully settled. Iraq under Saddam seriously violated the cease fire rules in a number of ways and also fired on American aircraft and apparently plotted to assassinate former President Bush. And finally there was the simple fact that Saddam held over 20 million Iraqis in a state of oppression. That last fact doesn't provide much of a practical reason for war but it does provide a lot of moral justification.

Tim
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