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To: Alighieri who wrote (381598)	4/30/2008 4:28:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571928

We'll do with one or two of the "many many" for now. They were firing at our aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones on a daily basis. They were constantly bringing us to the brink of war and backing off, time and again, which made the US look weak in the eyes of terrorists and undermined our credibility and encouraged terrorist attacks against us. While WMD weren't found, we know they had objectives to get back into the WMD business. They were allowing AQ to train in Iraq. They were supporting the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, making them obvious supporters of terrorism. The lack of a stable democracy in the region serves to foment Islamic terrorism world wide. They had previously attacked Kuwait for its oil. Saudi Arabia asked us to defend it from Iraq because it believed Iraq would come after THEIR oil. The loss of access to that oil would be an absolute economic disaster for the United States, a risk we couldn't continue to deal with, particularly after 9/11. This is only the beginning. It would be easy to come up with an entire book on the subject of how Iraq was a threat to us prior to the war.