President Bush

[devonin]

Originally Posted by xWnLx Crisco

Its still an issue to this day just like the Middle East has been. Haven't you ever heard of the 1000 year war? I am sure you have so it should be no surprise to you that a country is trying to help stop the madness.

"Helping" to stop an issue to which you have contributed in no small way is called 'cleaning up your own mess' not 'being some international hero'

Kind of how there was no proof of WMDs when they "searched" for them but back in the late 90s there was proof of them? Iraq was told to get rid of the WMDs in early 2001 a second and final warning and late 2002 guess what happened, they let the UN inspectors to go there and found nothing. Oh wow thats shocking, if you can tell me now that there is no way you could hide a WMD in 2 years than you are not intelligent.

Oh wow...do you not see what you just said? Let's go through this step by step:
1/ Iraq "has" WMDs
2/ Iraq is told "Get rid of your WMDs"
3/ After a time, inspectors look around and find no WMDs

You know...I think it is -just- as likely that maybe -they listened to what the UN told them- I love how absolutely nobody in the United States seems willing to admit the possibility that the actual reason the inspectors didn't find anything is because Iraq COMPLIED WITH THE UN.

Iraq doesn't have the luxury of being the world's greatest superpower, capable of ignoring anything that is done to it by the international community. The US can point and laugh at the UN because, honestly, what are they going to do about it? But Iraq would be -crushed- by trade embargos, it has almost no chance of standing up on its own without the abilty to trade its oil reserves for needed supplies. Is it really that crazy to suppose that they actually just did what they were told?

For proof of the connection between the too it is between Iraqi and Iran governments. It has never been proved to be official evidence but it doesn't mean it couldn't have been or still be true. I know it must sound like a weak arguement but the possibility at this point is enough to be looked under.

Last I heard, the "Axis of Evil" was widely regarded by non-americans to be a very funny joke. Historically Iraq and Iran -HATE- each other. If either of them thought they could get away with it, the other one would have been invaded solidly ages ago. The Iranians have always percieved Iraq as a pathetic western-wannabe, trying to copy American as much as possible while still claiming to hate the western world. Iraq has historically been of the opinion that Iran is too stuck in the past, unwilling to move forward in the ways needed to being the Middle East into the glory that they most of them feel they deserve.

Further: Even -If- Iraq and Iran were somehow connected...so? Last I checked, the attacks were blamed on "Al Qaeda" which uh...isn't Iran and certainly isn't Iraq.

Options? What options, that was the plan from the get go when invaded iraq. The riddance of the WMDs and with Iraq and its politically correct government would help keep it that way.

There was never a "true" government there to over throw, we went in there to establish one but as you can see its not as easy as it was said on national tv. Heres were being a country that has no threat on a daily basis vs a country that is filled with crime, mass murdering, threats from nuclear weapons get you, we will always have a group that hates america. Always and theres nothing I can do about it. Some of the "missions" from the al-Qaeda is to get rid of non muslim countries and guess what we are the biggest.

Well, for one, Yes there was a true government, just one that you didn't like, and even if you grant that it was one that a lot of the people there didn't like, it was a government and it governed. For two: What gives you the right to decide to go in and establish one? For three: plenty of countries, including America have groups that hate America, going to invade all of them? Lastly: Once again, Al-Qaeda is not Iraq, they are not the same and you have no business claiming one is the other.