As I have said all along, we invaded for several reasons, some of which were given, others of which were not given but were taken into consideration. Here are the few that come to mind:
- WMD - now most everyone agrees there were no WMD, but at the time, almost everyone thought there were. When in doubt, everyone assumed the worst and acted on that assumption. - Saddam's plans to re-arm and re-assert Iraqi power - Saddam's continued defiance of the UN-mandated no-fly zone. - Crimes against humanity. - Sponsorship of suicide bombers in Israel. - His plot to assassinate a former President - Freeing the Iraqi people - Using Iraq as a wedge to stop the spread of militant Islam and fight back with the spread of pluralistic democracy in the Middle East There were lots of reasons for going to war, not just one. On 5/14/07, Jim wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert M > > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:59 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > > > You are taking an optimistic view of things, when you have no reason in > > fact > > to be optimistic. He had no love for Iran, but how can you believe that > > he > > would not have aligned himself with Al Qaeda? > > Other's have answered this but let's assume for a minute that this was > possible: are you seriously suggesting that the invasion of Iraq was > justified because Saddam _might_ have allied himself with Al Qaeda? Why > did > we ignore all the others that they HAD allied themselves with? > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234670 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
