Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Unbelievable: I was having a cordial comment exchange with a liberal who was against the war in Iraq, when I said, "Saddam Hussein was known to have been working with international terrorist groups, was known to have had and used WMD ...".

He responded with the brilliant retort, "This is unsupported bullshit".

I can't believe some people in this world honestly believe Saddam Hussein never had WMD and never supported international terrorists. This has been proven time and time again, by Republicans, Democrats, the United Nations, and even France.

It is widely known that Iraq has had large quantities of chemical and biological weapons. He used them against the Kurds in the 1980s. Our troops got sick off them after the first Gulf War. President Clinton said in 1998 that Iraq had admitted having at one time a WMD arsenal 5,000 gallons of Botulinum, 2,000 gallons of Anthrax, 25 biological-filled Scud warheads, 157 aerial bombs -- much of which were unaccounted for at the time.

President Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox to destroy Iraq's WMD program.

And as for Saddam Hussein's support of international terrorism, this is common knowledge.

Yes, we've had a major intelligence failure in gathering information on Saddam's current WMD stock, and we need to find out what went wrong and fix it immediately. But don't rewrite history to say Saddam Hussein was a saint, and that anyone who suggests otherwise is purporting "unsupported bullshit". He invaded two of his neighbors, used chemical and biological weapons, and continued to support terrorists. After he was defeated in 1991, he deserved to be unseated. But we let him stay in power if, and only if, he abided by certain conditions. Among those was to prove he destroyed his WMD. He blatantly broke all of the conditions, and for that we finished the job we started in 1991.

But now people not only think that we were wrong, but that Bush made up the whole thing, and now terrorists are only mad because of the Iraq war. They cite the bombings in Spain as evidence. But Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia did not support the Iraq war, yet they are being attacked by Al Qaeda.

And lest we forget 9/11. Before that, we were pretty much leaving terrorists alone, aside from a few law enforcement activities. That day, they started a war, and we're fighting the war. We will be attacked a few more times during the war, but if we don't fight back, we will be in even more danger.