You are dutifully reciting the fable President Pinprick's acolytes have cooked up, in an unconvincing effort to cover his rear. It is witless nonsense designed to gull the gullible. As if a country the U.S. had invaded, overrun, and still had a couple hundred thousand troops in, could dictate anything to a determined U.S. president. To hell with their G--damned courts. The U.S. could have--and should have--told any new government there when to jump, and how high. Imagine FDR, or Truman, or Eisenhower, or Reagan wringing his hands like an old woman and pleading that he was helpless to do anything more. Nothing more was done because this weak sister of a president did not want it done. Mr. Obama resents this country and does not wish it well.
Hussein was an Arab Hitler who had murdered several hundred thousand Iraqis, kept young children chained in filthy prisons, had invaded Kuwait, had reneged on the agreements he had made to save his skin after being routed in the 1991 war that drove him out, and who had continually been firing on U.S. and British aircraft in many hundreds of incidents during the dozen years since. He was known to have manufactured large amounts of chemical weapons and had the feedstocks and machinery needed to make biological weapons, particularly anthrax. By late 2002 it had been four years since he had allowed open international inspections of these things, and he continued to balk at them. A series of attacks using anthrax-contaminated mail, soon after 9/11, had killed several Americans and forced congressional offices to be temporarily shut down, and no one knew who was behind them. To top all this off, Hussein was paying suicide bombers to murder Israeli civilians, and he was training and financing thousands of terrorists from groups around the world.
And yet despite all this, and even after 9/11, you would just have "contained" this regime, and hoped for the best. God help us all if the safety of the 300-plus million people in this country is ever entrusted to a president who shares your views. And maybe it already is.
