No threat?  He had agreed to the armistice which disallowed him to do what he was doing.  JUSTIFICATION????????

By the by, would we have been justified if Saddam had taken a shot at Bill, Hillary CLinton or Barack Obama?  Then QUIT BITCHIN About him taking on our former president.

You are the one (along with other liberals) who thinks they have authority over us. Conservatives don't think that.

It's only because YOU point to their authority that we use the resolutions against you. You need to get off the fence.

"Constantly attacking (peaceful) religions rather than politely sharing your own shows lack of faith " DB

Sixteen reasons becomes twelve.

Is my use of memory in compiling the rationale a complaint?  I thought I coverd the sprirt of the documents quite well, but If so, I will go back and copy word for word both the address to congress and the Address to the UN and highlight the presence of the differeing rationale for war. 

But I will only do so if you promise to go through it line by line with me and then you will proise to perform a mea Culpa at the end if there are sixteen seperate rationale present in them.  Will you do so?

Many of them dubious

Dubious?  WHich are dubious? 

Did our pilots not get targeted? 

Did Saddam release the Kuwaiti Prisoners?

Wre the inspectors allowed unfettered access to WMD sites?

none of them remotely good enough to justify all that's been already wasted in this,

Good lord man, what WILL you go to war to protect?

Havins Saddam engage our aircraft was good enough for me and most of my comrades who were willing to resume hostilities each time it happened. 

Or is courage so hollow that nothing is worth fighting for?

Again, clearly Saddam was no threat to you or me.

Oh, so Saddam has to be marching down 5th Avenue at the had of the Rep Guard before you can be stirred to action.

Personnally, it is also enough that he assisted in the fostering of a cult of suicide martyrdam against western targets.  That was enough for me to realize he needed to take a fall.

Israel maybe sorta but not enough for them to do anything about it.

Just curious.  I am making you the Minsterof Defense of Israel for this scenario.  How do you go about invading Iraq and removing Saddams regime?

Please, by all means be creative.  I find it like watching a worm on the hook....

But you know BD, I learn things from you... after I start looking things up for accuracy. According to some sources Saddam had Abu Nidal killed.

Yep, our immenent invasion had some positive side effects don't you agree.  Saddam was trying to stall and he did so "Interestingly."

Doesn't sound like sheltering to me.

Gee, how many YEARS did Nidal sit in Iraq?  He enjoyed the protection of the I Rep Guard special guards for many years who prevented anyone from "Intervening."

Nidal himself had been attempting to take out Yassir Arafat who many, probably many right here, considered a terrorist himself. Tough call there.

Both were terrorist scum who begged bullets in the head.  (Unless of course you are a liberal in which case by next week the lib kids will be wearing either Arafat Scarves or Nidal T-Shirts ala that brutal moron Che.

I love your last point though: The Iraqi people deserve freedom and democracy.

Thank you.  You are a rarirty since most libs believe that only THEY and the poor trodden masses who went to Harvard deserve freedom.

Delivered at the barrel of a gun, ruled by our lackeys,

I was in Iraq during an election.  I was more proud of the Iraqi's who voluntarily lined up under threat of carbombs, Mortars, Suicide vests, and snipers than I have ever been proud of the whining "Victim Class" in our nation.  

"Oooooh, the ballot is the wrong color.  Oooooo, the lines are too long, Ohhhh, I should get the day off to vote."

The Iraqi's volunatrily took those risks in HUGE numbers just to vote for what they believed in.  Wanna talk lackeys?  Our inner city people lining up fo the socialist utopia are the lackeys.

and don't you dare not give us our 58 military bases.

Do you have similar complaints against Camps Red Cloud, Essayons, Casey, Liberty Bell, Howze, Bonifas, Yongsan, Osan, Kunsan?  I can guarantee you that we have more than 58 camps in Korea alone. 

How about all the caserne in europe?

Do you complain about our facilities In mainland Japan, the Philippines, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Horn of Africa? 

And those Blackwater mercenaries, they can shoot you dead, but you can't prosecute them.

Those honorable gentlemen and ladies several of whom I am proud to know as retirees operate under strict ROE.

Similarly, I CAN shoot you dead here in Arizona if you violate the civilian equivalent.  You point a gun at me here on the streets of Tombstone, you will end up cold and stiff by nightfall.

That ain't my idea of freedom and democracy.

I doubt you have ever seen a burgeoning democracy fighting to survive. 

YOu probably think the who world is like Malibu or an episode of Law and Order.

That's not even sovereignty.

I have some friends in Korea and Japan who would beg to differ with you.  THey live under SOFA as well and seem to adjust to it.  Probably because they know we in the US are a force for good in the world.