I’m tired of arguing these points every time Iraq comes up, so I’m going to make a post to centralize this information and these links.
1. Saddam had connections with Al-Qaeda. Here are some of the captured documents that prove it, as well as links to plenty of other translated Baathist documents providing a wealth of other information people widely consider to be untrue. So Saddam was indeed working with Al-Qaeda. Considering his hatred of the U.S., and his monetary support for terrorism, how long do you think it would have been before he began giving them weapons? No, this does not mean that Saddam had anything to do with Al-Qaeda. I have never seen a Republican claim that that was the case, although the left constantly claims that any mention of the above evidence is trying to claim Saddam was behind 9/11.
2. Saddam had existing WMDs. Hundreds of them. It is also extremely likely that the majority of his existing programs went to Syria, and that much of that nuclear material was destroyed when Israel decided they didn’t want a nuclear Syria on their doorstep.
3. Saddam had programs to develop more WMDs. In addition to that link, the amount of material and his programs that went to Syria or were buried elsewhere in the desert remains unknown.
All of these subjects are not even open to debate anymore. The people who argue against these are trying to claim that something doesn’t exist: as soon as I’ve shown the proof that it does exist, how can you argue against it? You can try and argue that none of the above evidence is as substantial as was argued before the war, and that’s fine.
A few other points that I constantly have to argue:
1. Freedom for the Iraqis was always listed as one of the prime reasons for going into the war. WMDs were never the only reason.
2. We had the legal right, even the obligation, to go into Iraq. When Iraq surrendered during the first Gulf War, a whole variety of resolutions were passed in the U.N. that were the terms of the cease fire (about a quarter of the way down through the article). Saddam violated nearly all of them. The fact that Russia, Germany, and France were being bribed in the largest corruption in the history of the world to try and stonewall the U.N.’s own obligations does not change any of this.
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