Reading this has made me sit and think a little, but I keep coming back to the same conclusion. We are doing the right thing!!!! I have yet heard anyone mention that Saddam was funneling money from the oil for food program into his escilating military budget. I can't remember who said it, but someone said Saddam's WMD were all destroyed?? Bull Hocky. He let them destroy some, but not all. There was reports of a convoy leaveing Iraq prior to the war, but nothing was done about it. Also, think of how much desert is out there and how easy it would have been to build an underground facility covered by sand. Personaly I believe the weapons were shipped to Saudi Arabia. Heck he knew we were coming. Why face the full wrath of the US when we find WMDs when you can try to make us lok like fools for not finding what we claimed were there. ALSO, there may have been inspectors in Iraq prior to the war, BUT they did not have full and unrestricked access to all the WMD sites. They were told where they could and could not go. A clear violation to the UN sactions placed on him. The UN was just not willing to enforce it so we did it ourselves.
Bugweed you keep saying why do we have to be the worlds cops? We do because we are a superpower. With that power comes responsabilities. You can't expect to ignore a problem and it go away. If you want it to not get to you you have to stop it at its source. Look at WWII as an example we tried to stay out of that, but the fight came to us. A superpower cannot sit back idle while people are out to kill every hint of freedoms in the world.
I have head people say why havn't we gone to North Korea or Saudi? I believe its coming. I hate to say it, but I think those two are in the future. Saddam has just proven himself cabable of using WMD that he has possessed. So far the other two countries have not, but best believe they both possess them.
I for one though we should have taken Saddam out the first war. Heck we had delta force on his back door, but Bush SR didn't give the word to take him out. That would have caused a big comotion we were not prepared for at the time, but I still think we should have done it.
Things are getting better over in Iraq. Their standard of living is going up they have access to medicin and things they didnt under Saddam. He is no there to hord them from his people. True water and things may be disrupted, but thats the militants causing those problems after our contractors build the plants and things. Saddam was a threat plain and simple. He was out for more weapons and there is no denying that. We KNOW FOR A FACT about the funneling of oil for food money. So please stock kidding yourselves when you think Saddam a monster WE created was not trying to come back and bite us in the butt.
Yes we created Saddam. We supported him back in the Iran Iraq war. I think thats when it was. Anyways we did support him and helped him take power of that country. I think it may have been either sit back and do nothing or let the soviets take control or something or other. Hopefully someone knows a little mroe about that than I do. We make decision based on the era they happen and the time frame too. I never said we have never made bad desitions, but I think the one we are making now are justified.
We lost alot of inocent men women and children during the civil war and the revolutionary war. Its a fact of war. I;m not happy about the fact, but its a fact none the less. There was no diplomatic way around it. Saddam was not going to give up without a fight, but he sure did take off fast when we came for him.
Shows you how much of a coward he really was.
ok I think I have said enough and if I think of some more I will post it. I;m gone to go get some dinner have fun everyone.