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To: beach_bum who wrote (212268)	11/24/2004 9:19:07 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578550

that there are no WMD in iraq - no buts in it. It is totally immaterial and beside the point. Saddam was required, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, to PROVE he had destroyed certain weapons. Simply hiding them well doesn't cut it. There are millions of litres of missing chemical agent. We don't know WHERE that crap is. His obligation was to prove it was destroyed. His failure to do so has created a tremendous future risk for the rest of the world because we don't know, at any time, whether that chemical agent can turn up somewhere. When Clinton let Saddam off the hook in '98, he set the stage for the current war. Because Saddam did not abide by the terms of the previous commitment, and Clinton didn't hold his feet to the fire. Clintons fault for not attacking Saddam and not father Bush for not ousting him after the 1991 war ? This is utter nonsense. Bush 41 set, up front, objectives for his military action. Those objectives were accomplished and Saddam agreed to the terms of a ceasefire agreement. And while Bush 41 was in office, Saddam damned well complied with those terms. When Saddam realized we had elected a weak liberal president that he could push around, he did just that. Bush 41 did precisely as he should have done. Get the guy on the ropes, let him up, and say, "The United States will see to it that you no longer have the ability to harm your neighbors". Then, in comes the new guy Clinton. At the same time Clinton was setting us up to allow NK to have nukes, he was letting Saddam walk over the United States. Talk about creating anti-Americanism? Hell, he did nothing more than tell the Middle East that the US can't stand behind its military commitments because at any time they can elect a liberal who is nothing more than a good liar. >> You guys like war. dont you Hate it. But I also have the gumption to recognize that sometimes it is necessary and sometimes it can solve problems that can't be solved without. The War in Iraq is solving problems that simply couldn't have been solved any other way. >> Bin Laden is still alive ready for further episodes along with Bush and Co. Bin Laden may be alive but he is unable to put together an attack against us.