Agreed.

No more so than you leave a box of scorpions under your bed, hoping that they will be more concerned with each other than with finding a way to exit the “containment” of the box and enter your slippers.

And, he didn’t even need to shoot at us, to justify the actions we have taken.

http://casebolt.blogspot.com/2004/10/nuts-bolts-threat-assement-in-21st.html

http://casebolt.blogspot.com/2006/11/in-simplest-of-terms.html

Since we have seen how a few dozen guys from backwards Afghanistan perpetrated the events of 11 September 2001 on a under-$1M budget, why does it make ANY sense to leave regimes who share AQ’s view of life and liberty in the ABSOLUTE and unchallenged control of resource-rich, technically-modern nations?

Read my lips: Saddam didn’t have to be “linked” to 911 at all, to present the same kind of threat … actually, he had the potential to present a far, far worse threat … as what AQ brought forth from Afghanistan.

He had the means … he had been in the terrorist-training/bankrolling/supplying business for YEARS … and despite all the weapons inspection charades, NO ONE could conclusively say that he did not have at least small, terrorist-sized amounts of WMD to hand out.

He had the motive … all the way from feeding his own meglomaniacial vision of himself as the new Saladin, to getting us off his back in the No-Fly Zones.

All he needed was the opportunity … or a surrogate to implement it for him, just as AQ did 911.

To say that he was not a threat of the same type … let alone ignore the threat he posed, AFTER someone else with far fewer capabilities killed 3000 people on American soil in less than three hours … is a prime example of the arrogant, thick-headed idiocy that is a hallmark of the critics of this Administration.

It indicates a lack of common sense of the highest order … supplanted by feel-good conventional wisdom, reinforced by smug self-assurance.

“No, I was returning to Bart’s cheap shot about the “surrender lobby.”

Truth hurts, don’t it? If the shoe fits…

“Well, we know it was not more than 12 months because he said “It would not take years, nor weeks, but months.” That may seem like a long time to you…”

No, 12 years and 18 Security Council resolutions seems like a long time to me.

“There are more than 3,800 Americans who would tell you, if they could, that it was not too long.”

How dare you presume to speak for those whose dead pinkies have more honor than you have in your whole body? It really galls me to listen to people who hate the military claim to speak on their behalf when the vast majority of service men and women believe in their mission and can’t stand the cowardly ersatz spokesmen who give aid and comfort to the enemy, prolonging the war and getting their comrades killed, and want to pull out and make their collective sacrifices and deaths of their comrades-in-arms meaningless. Who the he-double-hockey-sticks do you think you are?

Beauty TRJ. I could only wish that our heroes serving on the USS Cole would have gotten that sort of response from their “Commander in Chief” at the time.

This is a valid reason for a just war under any circumstances. Anything else is gravy.

Unless one is a self-hating, narcisstic nitwit who thinks that a fine speech and a loving hug will solve world problems. Then one should wear a sign that says “SHOOT ME”, so as to deflect bullets and airplanes away from the truly innocent. It’s the least one can do, is it not?

Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t trust anything coming out from the UN’s bureaucrats, especially once we learned about the monumental corruption they were involved in with Saddam. Of course, if one doesn’t mind having a mass murderer threatening us–and acting on those threats–then I suppose one doesn’t mind having the biggest swindle in the history of man perpetrated in his name; no matter how many children die, as long as it can be blamed on one of ours.

Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the final outcome of the WMD question. The man was in material breach of the ceasefire the first time he fired on our planes. You don’t leave that kind of lunatic on your flank.

Nope. You’ve held on to your hate for too long, and it is consuming your soul. darrellhuff is correct: you’ll just find someone else to hate.

After all, even the leading Dhimmicrat presidential candidates are hedging on withdrawing from Iraq.

Gee Corndog, you forced me to actually try to read the thing.

(that’s your job, it’s linked above)

Mostly it seems like Blix is complaining of a lack of compliance, or, at least that’s how it concludes.

(adios)

is such a serious and profound dis-ease, those afflicted will embrace and defend apparently ANYBODY who bashes this President, that embrace running from Ahmadinejhad to Hugo.

What’s really depressing is the ALACRITY with which any information that doesn’t feed BDS is automatically dismissed, the dismissal itself nothing short automatic.

Lenin would be very excited over contemporary America’s growing collection of Useful Idiots.