Since you're able to tell the future, can you clue me into next week's lottery numbers?
The position above requires a few large leaps of logic.
1) That Saddam would have been able to develop weapons programs of significant magnitude as to pose a direct threat to the U.S.
2) That Saddam would then use said weapons, despite the fact that such use would virtually guarantee his destruction.
3) There's allso the view that Saddam could sell WMD to terrorists. Notwithstanding the fact that there are plenty of other countries who could perform the same task, you also have to assume some idealogical compatability between secular-socialist Saddam and Islamic militants like Al Q'aeda when no such link has been demonstrated (giving money to the families of suicide bombers is not in the same ball park as selling someone a nuke to use on NYC).
Sorry, but "programs" doesn't cut it. The war was prosecuted on the basis of Iraq having emmense stockpiles of WMD that could be turned against the west at a moment's notice (Tobey Blair's "45 minutes"). Without the threat of WMD, the war is shown to be exatcly what it's been all a long: an imperial adventure to secure a regional power base, put Iraqi oil resources under U.S. control and provide new opportunities for U.S. corporations.
People still don't get it. Did Saddam not go in rape and pilliage a peacefull loving nation. Did he not use WMD against the Kurds in is own country Killing 1000's. Is there not evidence of WMD program as per Kay's report with pictures I might add.
SADDAM is another Hitler, has no regard for human life, even his own people. He wants to rid the world of Kurds! Where does he go from there. The rest of the Middle East, IRan? Germany? Russia? North America? No My friend the world is better off when they find Saddam and hang his scranny ass in the street for all the world to see.
They will find WMD in Iraq, may take time but they will find them, if not have the CIA plant them there.
The war was just!
War is tragedy and it's the ultimate sacrafice and my heart goes out to all who lost their lives fighting for fredom and justice.
The needs of the MANY far out weigh the needs of the few!