Originally posted by sxecrow
I'd like to say one more thing. These were terrorist attacks - not attacks carried out by a nation or government. This is where the difference is between the war on terror and the war against Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. 15 of the hijackers were Saudi (supposedly our friends). I will always condemn this war for ever taking place. I will never support Bush for what he did there and I hope NATO and the rest fo the world let him have it.
And this is where you are blind, naieve, or both. Yes those were terrorist attacks carried out by an organization not a country. However in order for such an organization to exist there needs to be a nation that supports them...a place for them to base their operations. Afghanistan was one such place where the Taliban allowed Al Quada to hole up there and shout "Jihad!" Iraq was another nation that had a viable chemical and biological weapons program and at one time a viable nuclear porgram. We found terrorists that had commited past acts in Europe that were hiding in Baghdad with the full knowledge of the Hussein regime, there were (and probably still are) terrorists groups in Northern Iraq that were linked to Al Quada. You did not want Iraq to become another Afghanistan nor let the WMD they had fall into the hands of terrorists...something that after 9/11 had become a very real possibility. Atleast Bush was a man enough President to actively go after these uncivilized human beings...afterall the complacency of the Clinton Administration got us nowhere.