[LightningGSX]

I don't see how we're getting owned, remy is arguing a few small points, without looking at the big picture.

1.OIL? (Taken from the DOEs website) Less than 20% of US oil comes from the gulf, and less than 20% of that 20% comes from Iraq.There have been congressional studies that stated, even if all gulf oil was cut off, there would be a minimal economic impact on the US, since we can easily make it up with non-gulf oil sources.So Bush invaded Iraq for oil?

2.WMDs? Its well documented that Iraq DID have WMDs, if they are not in Iraq now, that means they made it to the black market, which is a HUGE threat to the US and in itself warranted removing Saddam from power.

3.US supporting Iraq? I assume you are talking about the Iran-Iraq war, in which the US's official stance was neutral.At MAX we gave incomplete Iraq intelligence(no weapons, no "support"), we did give Iran weapons(and the whole Iran-Contra scandal, about the time you were born).So I don't know where you got that idea, giving weapons to Iraq would have resulted in a huge scandal.

4.UN? Waiting for UN backing would have had little difference, considering there are troops from US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, etc in Iraq already.I would say that we do have international backing, wouldn't you? Whose else would have went in with UN backing? France? Germany? They had economical ties to Saddam, so they wouldn't have taken part even if we had UN support.The UN is basically powerless in everything but humanitarian efforts.

4.Saddam and terrorism? Just because there is, as of yet, no evidence of Saddam supporting Al Queida, doesn't mean he didn't.It also doesn't mean he didn't support other terrorist groups.It is known these terrorist groups have chemical weapons, where do you suppose they got them from?

Just because we didn't remove everyone of the worlds bad regimes all at the same time, doesn't mean we have somehow singled out Iraq.Iraq chose to fuck with the UN resolutions, which Saddam must of had a reason for doing so, why would he kick out UN inspectors for a long period of time and give the UN BS information, if he had no WMDs to hide? Iraq was just a start anyway, I'm sure over time all the other tyrants and rogue nations will get whats coming to them.Military actions against regimes that support terrorism(or even ones that don't at present, but have the capability) is the only way to fight terrorism.