The Iraq War was necessary

1. "the War Powers Act of 1967" The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, technically Bush's invasion of Iraq was in coordination with this resolution, however this resolution itself is unconstitutional, so is the war. 2. "The United Nations weapons inspectors were given 12 years to find weapons of mass destruction..... Only the threatened use of force by the United States.... Inspectors also discovered Saddam had drone airplanes" a. None of the those resolutions dealt with his so called WMD's programs b. Is that why former UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus head of UNSCOM in a recent interview said that Iraq was complying with Resolution 687 of their disarming and Ekeus was getting read to sign off on their cooperation until US officials obstructed this? read the interview here: http://www.wsws.org... c. Hussein after 9/11 invited UN weapons inspectors back in again, and he provided to the IAEA a 12,000 page report of every weapon Iraq had in its aresenal. Hans Blix who was the head of the IAEA at the time state himself that Iraq was cooperating with UN weapons inspectors. Where did you get your data from? it's wrong. The drones were used for reconnassance as later found out, they had nothing to do with Saddam's so called WMD program which no longer existed anyway. 3. "President Bush made it clear......our country's next response would be a counterattack against any nation which sponsored or harbored terrorists..... indicated Saddam Hussein....was in the process of developing his own WMD programs...posed a potential imminent threat to the United States.....Hussein failed to comply with UN resolutions numbers 1441 and 1442 and numerous attempts were made to disarm him.....it was necessary for Bush and the U.S. to act preemptively Hussein complied with both of those UN resolutions and this is from testimony of Hanx Blix and Muhammad ElBaradei, again where did you get your data? http://www.cooperativeresearch.org... Besides the fact that the Security Council did not approve force against Iraq. And yes it is the Coalition of the Coerced, many of the nations were just small, third world countries that the US threatened to cut off aid to if they didn't join their coalition. 4. "Saddam's son in law, Lietuenant General Hussein Kamel,.. defected....then provided information about Iraq's WMD programs. Saddam had both Kamel and his brother executed a year later." Yes, and what did Hussein Kamal say? what did he say? go back and read what he said... He explicitly said that HE was responsible for the complete destruction of ALL WMD's Iraq had after the first Gulf War.. He wasn't killed for spilling the beans on Iraq's so called WMD's, he was killed because he refused to comply with some of Saddams orders regarding his personal life. 5. "Iraqi officials later admitted they had hidden more than 100,000 gallons of botulinum toxin, more than 22,000 gallons of anthrax, more than 500 gallons of aflatoxin, four metric tons of VX nerve gas and 2.7 gallons of ricin." I don't recall reading about this anywhere, I'd like to see a source... 6. "Even prominent Democrats, along with American, British and Russian....." Russia? Yea, right except Russia vetoed any resolution in the Security Council authorizing force to remove Hussein... Who are you trying to fool? And yes prominent Dems did support the war in Iraq, so what? Forign wars for no reason are a specialty of the democrats. 7. "acts of terror performed by Saddam Hussein: -Provided headquarters, operating bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups. In 1991, Saddam commissioned several failed terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities" You mean during the Gulf war? WELL DUH!, he was just supposed to sit there and watch his country being destroyed by American planes... sheeesh -"Iraq was harboring a terrorist cell led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, a suspected al Qaeda affiliate and chemical and biological weapons specialist" This claim has been debunked numerous times, Saddam Hussein had arrested a few of Zarqawis aides and kept them in his prisons and he issued a decree calling upon Zarqawis arrest. -"A camp in Ansar al-Islam, an Islamist militia based in a lawless part of northeast Iraq, trained terrorists in the use of chemical weapons" Key word, LAWLESS, what does that mean? A part of Iraq not under Husseins control, meaning he had no authorization over them.. "-Senior Iraqi and al Qaeda leaders had met 8 times since the early 1990's" This doesn't mean ANYTHING at all, people meet all the time, that doesn't mean there was a connection, and besides none of those meetings took place after 1997, because Bin Laden attempted to meet Iraqi agents in 98' and was told to go away, Hussein was no interested in talking with them. -"He aided the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a separatist group fighting the Turkish government" The US aids the MEK right now in Iraq, what is your point? And I'd like to see a source besides CFR indicating he supported the PKK, that's a hilarious claim right there. -"He supported Islamist Hamas movement and reportedly channeled money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers" Ye he paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers, notice key word FAMILIES.. Usually because Israel tracks down the families of any suicide bombers and bulldozes their homes.. -"Saddam supported secular terrorist groups" Source?? -In the 1980's Iran-Iraq war, Iraqi troops used poison gas,....." Yes, we know and the US helped him by providing intelligence through reconassiance missions on where Iranian troops were located, and by fudging up UN reports on his use of chemical weapons against the Kurds..... and again....it was IN THE 80's!!! 8. "Iraq's WMD Development:" It appears to me that your using pre war intelligence to try and prove something that's already been proven wrong.. Not only are you not providing evidence of your claims, but your using outdated evidence. "Saddam's....clearly in pursuit of a WMD program and posed as a significant threat...., the United States. No they were not in pursuit of WMD's, they stopped their WMD's program after the First Gulf War, and complied with all binding UN resolutions... "history has clearly demonstrated that the only way to preserve peace on earth is through the use of military force, to combat those who have no regard for human life. When....peaceful negotiation fail.... use force as a way to defeat militant forces bent on destruction..." Maybe private armies....but it's not the job of the US government, we just make more enemies that way. "Reagan's philosophy of "peace through strength" has been the most effective way to protect American citizens." Reagan not anywhere near a great president, he watched as the Kurds were being gassed by Hussein and vetoed a resolution that came from the Senate demanding the US stop aiding Saddam Hussein. Don't use that mans words when it comes to the Iraq war.. "While we may never rid the world completely of all terrorists" So basically we're fighting an endless war by borrowing money...against people in every country on the planet......... only bush would be stupid enough to think that one up.