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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (31701)	6/20/2004 11:30:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 81568

The US mission in Iraq is now authorized by the UN. Still unjust and evil? As far as whether Iraq was a threat to us, Vladimir Putin, among other sources, has recently said Iraq did plan to launch terror attacks against American targets. Iraq was a haven for many terror groups and individuals, including the man indicted for building the bomb used in the '93 WTC bombing. Iraq assisted terror groups in the Philippines which attacked Americans in addition to others. When the US first indicted bin Ladin back in the '93's, the indictment cited cooperation between Al Qaida and Iraq on weapons development. Richard Clarke claimed this was ongoing when he justified Clinton's bombing of a plant in Khartoum. Former President Clinton also just recently said Bush had no choice on Iraq. Put all this together and it is quite plausible to consider Iraq a threat which needed to be dealt with. Now, I'm going to go further: If Bush had not gone into Iraq at all, many of the people now condemning him for doing so would be condemning him for not doing it. This may be hard to imagine considering the state of public discourse today. But it is a fact that in the last election, Al Gore promised to get rid of Saddam's regime if he were elected. As recently as 2002, Gore said: Since the State of the Union, there has been much discussion of whether Iraq, Iran, and North Korea truly constitute an "Axis of Evil." As far as I'm concerned, there really is something to be said for occassionally putting diplomacy aside and laying one's cards on the table. There is value in calling evil by its name. .....Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I'm concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table. To my way of thinking, the real question is not the principle of the thing, but of making sure that this time we will finish the matter on our terms. cfr.org