Instead of reading all the distinguished opinions presented here, I will simply provide my own. Apologies; I don't have too much patience reading arguments (which I can say with 98% certainty do exist in this thread). Which reminds me: as a mod, I'm obligated to remind everyone to keep things civil.
I believe the reason we went to war in Iraq was because we had reason to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or was making them. I find it hard to believe he didn't; if he really had no WMD's, he acted pretty stupid when he pretty much said, "Nyah, nyah, you can't check my nation and I'm snubbing you all!". If he really had nothing, you'd think he'd allow the UN to confirm that. Then again, I'm not him (I'm probably smarter than him; he always reminded me of the Civilization II AI, which was piss-poor). Sadly, we'll never really know, will we?
According to some liberal debating opponents from a while back, a grand total of 0 terrorists met their death the night "Shock and Awe" went into action. I don't know if he's correct or not, but it begs the question: What
did we bomb, if he's right? I'd say it was WMD caches. But then, I'm not 100% on that. I still say he had something he didn't want us to see; we may not have found it.
The US made a dumb mistake when they changed their reason for going in; I wish they'd stick to their guns. It'd remove a lot of debating firepower the liberals have right now. Frankly, Bush has egg on his face, not because we didn't find WMD's, but because Bush did a crappy job in Damage Control.
I'm not sure of the char limit here, so I'm going to start a new post to be safe.
