HMM! Perhaps some of you folks have forgotten several FACTS!
#1: Saddam Hussein DID, in fact, have WMD's and an on-going research program for nuclear weapons! It is possible or even PROBABLE that, when Saddam was delaying the IAEA inspectors, the massive amounts of WMD materials were being re-located in another country!
#2: Saddam Hussein DID, in fact, violate UN sanctions a total of 17 times! When the Bush administration uncovered the "food for oil" scam, with many of the UN "elitists" involved, it became obvious that the UN (and the IAEA) might have been totally compromised, from pure GREED!
#3: It was "common knowledge" that Saddam Hussein was "payrolling" the Hezbollah and Hamas, and paying "tribute money" to the families of suicide bombers... that just might be classified as "terrorists"?
#4: Within the politicos in the USA, Bill Clinton (when he was still President), Al Gore (still in office as VP), Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John Kerry, and MANY others gave speeches that openly declared that Saddam Hussein had WMD's! As an aside, you have to wonder if we would have invaded Iraq ANYWAY, if Al Gore had won in 2000, or if John Kerry had won in 2004!
#5: Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush had an EXTREMELY high rating in all of the polls! For that matter, the majority of the American people kept on wondering WHEN we would attack, not WHY!
#6: The "fatalistic" aspect within the USA was falsely based on what became "vogue" to say....that the USA had attacked "unilaterally"! It was NOT "unilateral", for there was a total of 32 countries that supplied troops, logistics or intelligence! We were NOT alone, yet the news media kept on hyping the word "unilateral"!
#7: The leftist anti-war organizations "warned" that "hundreds of thousands" of body bags would be filled with American troops! It sounded like even those organizations BELIEVED that Saddam had WMD's, and would use them!
#8: If the invasion of Iraq was all about the oil, then WHY are we seeing such high gasoline prices right now? I'm not sure of what the price of gas is in Iraq at the moment, but it was a whopping 12-cents per gallon not too long ago.....because THEY are using THEIR oil!
#9: We've "lost" the war, or it's "un-winnable"? Well, if the FACTS are correct, 16 of the 17 Iraqi provinces are relatively peaceful right now! The "insurgency" seems to be centralized, mostly within Baghdad! Maybe the news media folks, who RARELY venture out of the "green zone", aren't exactly reporting the TRUE story?
#10: ....And, I just GOTTA use this one, since it has become so popular with the lefties: The invasion of Iraq was....."For the children"! Perhaps if/when Iraq is able to stand on its own feet and become "democratic", they won't feed the children into the "suicide bomber" factories that the fanatic "Mullahs" have made! Maybe the Iraqi kids of today won't become "Martyr's" later on!