Originally posted by Maniac
It was the reason that justified the war.
Im glad the only reason I need to be given to go into Iraq was "Just Because"
I saw Saddam as a threat even if he didn't currently have them. He's had them before and I have had no doubt if given the opportunity he would not hesitate to get them again.
Thing with is Saddam has already shown is just psychopathic enough to not hesitate to use them first and not just to achieve the military goal of defeating an army in the field.
HE was in my mind a now or later situation.
Either we had to deal with him definitively now or inevitably and at a much higher cost later
I knew sanctions would never last forever so
The only other option was containment and the current situation with North Korea is all the evidence I need to see what can happen with containment and a dictator hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weaponry and the means to deliver them to more and more distant targets.
It seems like in the case of Korea time and time again we are determined to not let a country get nuclear weapons and like Korea we fail and that country ends up with them anyway. So for me it wasn't a matter of If, but when he would acquire a nuclear capability.
Which is a thought that didn't appeal to me particularly in the case of Iraq when you stop and consider that his heirs apparent if anything seemed to be worse not better.
So the future there wasn't exactly bright and shiny either.
So as far as I see it. It was now or later whether we wanted to or not we were going to have to deal with it.
As for the WMD's that were claimed to have been there.
I somehow get the feeling that story is a long way from over and somewhere in the future as more and more information comes out we are all going to be in for an eyebrow raising surprise.
There's just too much weird about it.
there are other reasons I have but thats all Ill mention for the moment
