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Originally Posted by VinceZeb
Sethomas, you asked an (I assume) honest question, so I will give you a honest answer:
I supported the war for many reasons. The first is that Saddam had 12 years to comply with the U.N. sancations that were placed upon him after Gulf War I. He had jerked inspectors around constantly and would not comply. All he would have had to do was produce video tapes, documents, ANYTHING that proves he destroyed his cache of WMDs. The WMDs not being there does not mean that he did not have them. That is the line of thinking that parents use when they visit their kid in college: "If I don't see the kid's bong, that means that they are not a druggie." Besides, it's obvious where the WMDs are: Syria.
Second, I believe (and evidence shows) that Saddam was a terrorist supporter. His payments to suicide bombers in Palestine, his terrorist training camps throughout the years, and his constant shadyness when it came to his WMDs is proof enough for me. To trust the man would be to trust a thief to house-sit.
Third, I believe some of the best evidence is the 201 dead bodies that littered Spain. Al-Queda attacked Spain becuase they supported the U.S. in the invasion of Iraq. For the past 2 years, liberals have done everything but go door-to-door and scream at people that Osama hated Saddam and Osama considered Saddam an infidel and would attack his country next. Why would Al-Queda and Osama give a flying fuck about the U.S. invading Iraq if Osama hated Saddam and the Iraqi people? I figured he would have congradulated us for capturing the dumb bastard.
Finally, our invasion of Iraq and stiffiling of Saddam's rule has hindered terrorists from recruitment and completion of plans. There has been a letter circulating round the intraweb that is from an Al-Queda (I believe) member that has stated that because of the victory in Iraq, the ability to perform terrorist functions has been severely damaged.
And, in short, thats why I supported the war.
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To address your third contention: do you think that people can't hate people whom are enemies of each other? Of course they can. Just b/c they consider us more evil doens't mean that they can't still hate another infidel.
Fourth, this supposed letter, is it circulating w/the submarine letter? And do you think that it's not just some 13 year old who wants to just be stupid? Of course you don't, but until I get some sort of authentication, how can it be really taken seriously?
In addition, there are some that say invasion of Iraq has only created MORE terrorists and MORE anti-American sentiment, along with the new socialist PM for Spain being elected in response to the bombing of their trains has only fueled the feelings of actually accomplishing thing among terrorists.
And if it's so obvious that the WMDs are in Syria, why did we invade Iraq?
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