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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
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But he isn't really making a case for war, he's making the case that Saddam was a problem child.
Making the case for war requires making the case for urgency, that there are
no other options. For Iraq the President had to prove Saddam was linked to al Qaida and harboring WMD.
We've now come to realize that there were really almost no facts the Administration was basing these assertions on, which diminished both the level of the threat and the urgency required for action. But like the good sheep we are, most of the Congress, most of the media and most of the American people fell right in line still shell shocked from 9/11.
The in effect made the war in Iraq not a "pre-emptive" war as it was billed, but rather a "pre-ventative" war in which we were stemming the problem before it really grew into one. The ethical issues with this notion of the use of US power are indeed extremely serious.
And that's ignoring the fact that a lot of Americans
still believe the Iraq war was retaliation for 9/11!
-spence