Originally posted by Toad
If the mission was to eliminate their WMD, it's not accomplished.
Unless you think maybe we should invade Fiji and eliminate theirs too.
If it was to eliminate SH, that we did. But that's not why we ostensibly went, correct?
Bush said, and I quote, "If you support, train, harbor, pay for, supply, or provide aide comfort and succor for terrorism, you are a candidate for regime change". Notice there was nothing vahue or ambiguous about that statement. Notice that he DID NOT say that in order to qualify for regime change you had to possess weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam Hussien harbored terrorists from Abu Nidal on down to the lowest level operatives. Saddam Hussien did in fact pay $25K to the families of suicide bomers in Israel. There were in fact terrorists, and high ranking ones in fact, who were known to have participated in about 90% of the top 100 largest and most notorious acts of terrorism, in Iraq at the time the invasion was launched. There is a laundry list of known major league terrorists captured in Iraq in the last 14 months that I have posted here at least a dozen times. Of particular note, terrorists known to have taken part in the Achille Lauro incident and the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 have in fact been captured in Iraq. That's just two major incidents that at least some of the organizers and perpetrators of have been captured in Iraq. Lest we forget, on public television broadcast all over the planet, Saddam offered $25K to the family of any terrorists willing to blow himself up to kill Americans or Israeli Jews. It is a matter of public record he paid off on the killing by suicide bomb of Israeli Jews.
Regarding the Weapons of Mass Distraction, the lead up and build up to the invasion lasted damned near 2 full years, because Bush tried to get co operation from any number of countries and the United Numbnuts. Saddam had plenty of time to do whatever he wanted to with them. And yet, illegal long range missiles were found, in numbers, in Iraq. With warhead cases designed to deliver chemical and bilogoical weapons. There have been at least ten incidents of chemical weapons being found in small quantities.
