Reply #35: Check your "givens" [View All]

Maybe the reason you are a little more understanding is because you are still operating with incorrect assumptions. I give you:

GIVEN: We KNOW Iraq possessed WMD at one point. (Yes, but no evidence after 1995.)

GIVEN: We KNOW Iraq used WMD at one point. (Yes, 1988)

GIVEN: We had no reason to believe Iraq no longer had these weapons. (Yes, we did. You may have and still dismiss those reasons, but they came in the form of Scott Ritter, Hans Blix, the IAEA, and Iraqi defectors)


GIVEN: As of 10 Oct 2002 Iraq had for some time refused to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. (Fair enough. Reacall though, they had not been asked to cooperate since inspectors were withdrawn in 1998. Recall also that Iraq had been cooperating with inspectors for months before Bush pulled the trigger.)


GIVEN: Iraq supported terrorists who hated the US and our allies. (To Quote Dennis Kucinich, "Hellooooooo..." I supose if by "allies" you mean Israel, and by terrorists, you mean Hezbola, then you're technically accurate, but is that a case for war? "We have to attack Iraq because they have some loose connection to an enemy of Israel?")