Originally Posted by ManInCamo
Oh, here I am. I just woke up.
Thats great, they didn't find a link to 9-11
Hold on... ok - it almost matters.....
no, wait... no it doesn't.
Saddam still financially supported terror, including giving financial support to families of those who become homicide bombers.
then there's that whole ignoring U.N. Resolutions.
But the U.N. sucks anyway and is incredibly corrupt, and France and Russia especially were financially benefiting from Saddams regime, however thats a moot point now.
oh yea, he also killed and tortured his people. Maybe that was good though, considering so many Iraqis are ****ing idiots
beyond that, my brain must actually think to respond, so I'm going to get some breakfast.
Ok go get some breakfast already
Killing and torturing his people happened within his own borders and while that is horrible and all it is not the US' place to police inside other peoples borders. This falls under the UNs job. Yeah you say the UN is worthless :blah: but it is there for a reason and whether you agree with it or not it was set up to stop those kinds of things from happening, as well as the unlawful attacking of other countries.
bush said many times in conferences that Iraq and Al-Queda were connected and had a strong relationship with each other...hell ,cheney just made a similiar statement on Monday in a conference knowing full well that wasn't why the US is there.
Ok so what do we have here? We have country A that was attacked...valid reason to go hunting and I support that.
Said country travels overseas and continues the hunt then asks country B if we may enter their borders as a military force. Country B says no because we have a history of aggression with this country and past dealings leave a bad taste. No problem it is their every right to do so.
Country A decides a new angle is needed to get in the borders as information begins floating in the the target group have fled to country C instead of country B. Instead of chasing the target group they approach the UN about WMDs existing in country B and push that angle.
Un checks out the allegations and finds nothing. So leaders of country A tell them they are wrong and take it to the people, this time with a new slant. Country A is known to have strong ties with Target Group is the statement made and that they are the axis of evil. All the while reports are floating around that Target Group may instead be in country C and it is fair common knowledge now....but the people in country A are distracted enough to buy into the story leaders of Country A are feeding them.
The rest is history so to speak. Country A has still found no WMD, and the gas that was found was shown not to even be in functioning order because of age and degredation.
So how is this not lying again?