Posted by Dan Ewert : 8/29/2002 02:02:00 AM (Archive Link)
So on the issue of Iraq, many are saying we have no right for attack because we can’t prove Saddam’s development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and we can’t prove that he is harboring, protecting, or aiding terrorists. This is what they say in public to avoid another Persian Gulf War and to oppose the U.S. However, I cannot for a minute believe that any of these people actually buy into this. Here are some facts… we know Hussein has developed WMD in the past; we know he tossed UN inspectors out of Iraq before they had come close to completing their mission of ensuring the WMD had been destroyed; we know that while the inspectors were in Iraq, they hit so much red tape and brick walls that they were utterly ineffective anyway; we know that Hussein hates the U.S. and that Iraq is just a stone’s throw from Afghanistan, a country from which a number of al Qaeda terrorists and Taliban lackies escaped. So for somebody to actually believe that Iraq isn’t developing and producing more WMD and that he isn’t helping terrorists who have proven they can strike at America is not just absurd… it’s stupid… incredibly stupid. And while I think that the countries who put forth such nonsense are stupid in their own ways, I don’t think their stupid in this way. They know better; they know Hussein is up to no good. But again, they would prefer to stand by and do nothing except talk, talk, talk. Stupid.