The timeline is a different issue.
He thumbed his nose at the cease fire agreement for 10+ years.
He had plenty of time to comply, more than enough.
9/11 made things a bit different. Saddam had WMD's, that is a fact.
After he started violating his agreements, we had no way of
knowing if he still had them, built new ones, or whatever,
because he blocked inspections.
9/11 was a wakeup call to what terrorists were willing to do.
The US feared that Saddam, WHO HATES US, and the terrorists
WHO HATE US, would join forces and do something worse than 9/11.
We weren't willing to leave it up to the "word' of a psychopath.
So we enforced the ceasefire agreement from the war we won with Iraq.
The WMDs were not there. But thats irrelevant. We had to make sure.
End of story.
The core issue, however, is, what should foreign
policy, in general terms, be? Involvement or uninvolvement?
The consequences of uninvolvement have already been
proven by WWII.
50 million dead.
Still waiting to hear a rational argument for the other side
from you. So far... nothing but dodges.
peace
axeman
Quote from Copernicus:
sure it took 20 yrs
we could have waited with saddam too, especially that he didnt have any weapons