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Originally posted by theking
You are entitled to your opinion. I favor the policy of pre-emption and I favor the take down of Saddam and the Baathist party and have since within the first year of the '91 cease fire. I have never viewed the war as being primarily about WMD's (to me it was part of a list of reasons and was not on the top of the list). I believe it to be a forward thinking extention of the war on terrorism...for multiple reasons which I have stated multiple times...and stated them pre-invasion.
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I've never viewed the Iraq war as being primarily about WMDs either. In my opinion, the WMD issue was just an excuse to justify regime change in Iraq.
Also, I think that if Bush was going to use the concept of WMDs and a country that is a threat to America, either Iran or North Korea would have been better choices than Iraq. But comparing Iran, Iraq, and N. Korea....Iraq is the bitch of the bunch, so maybe he was thinking he could kick some serious Iraqi ass and that would scare the other "Axis of Evil" countries into being less evil for fear that the same might happen to them?
Either way, I think Bush is too much of a reckless cowboy, and his actions have actually made America less safe.
Even though I'm not a fan of Bush's foreign policy, I think there are even worse things about him, like his conservative Christian views.