Because those particular resolutions express US national security interests.

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Everyone on earth except for the pitiful, insignificant minority of people like you is fully aware of that FACT.

100% wrong. oh my god

There wasn't. wake yourself.

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Absolutely false.

Saddam and OBL hated one another. HATED! OBL offered the assistance of Al Qaeda when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991 even. Kuwait politely declined. OBL has been quoted referring to Saddam as a "Bad Muslim."

Zarqawi was a nobody, propped up by the US as some real-deal badass. He was a Jordanian thug, wanted in his home country, running from the law all the time. He wasn't Al Qaeda in Iraq until they said he could be Al Qaeda in Iraq.

There was zero Al Qaeda in Iraq until we created a power vacuum in Iraq. We removed all leadership and disbanded the military with no thought of what to do next.

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Or if you're Osama Bin Laden, Bush is a great president.

Or if you're the Taliban, Bush is a great president.

Or if you're the president of Iran, Bush is a great president.

Or if you're Chinese, Bush is a great President.

Or if you're an illegal alien, Bush is a great president.

Or if you're a defense contractor, BUsh is a great president,

Or if you're employed by one of the many new departments in this huge government, BUsh is a great president.

Or if you're a border crossing drug runner, BUsh is a great president.

Or if you're an utterly brain dead fool, incapable of thoughts not placed inside your cranium by Coulter, Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh, Bush is a great president.

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There are good things Bush has done, and there are bad things Bush has done. Unfortunatley the bad outweigh the good.

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The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. - F.A. Hayek

-The Ludwig von Mises Institute
-Ron Paul 2008
-The Constitution of the United States of America
-I am the NRA

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but the “Just for Fun” section is farther down in the forums directory. That is where you meant to put this post, right?

OBL wanted to depose Saddam before Desert Storm because of his secular views. After Desert Storm, Saddam brought Islam into the government the Iraqi culture as a means of reaching out to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda. That move was well received. The 9/11 Commission Report states that Saddam and OBL sought each other thru the 90’s, and the newly released report by the Institute for Defense Analysis puts an end to any doubt that radical Islamic terrorist organization were unwilling to work with Saddam.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf

If you’re unaware, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad was Zawahiri's old group.


Zarqawi was OBL’s comrade-in-arms in the jihad against the Soviet invasion. He spent the better part of a decade in Afghanistan the first time he went there, then went back and set up terrorist training camp with OBL’s money. You’re right, there’s no connection there; except, maybe, for that loyalty oath he swore to OBL.

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no, he was right.

Saddam failed to comply to U.N. sanctions.

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Many times I believe Americans will have to take back the country and start a new government.

I must agree with you on that point.


And obviously the UN Security Council also agrees.

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If the alleged reason for invading Iraq is that it was in US national security interests, then UN resolutions have no direct bearing on that alleged reason.

If one uses UN resolutions as a reason for invading Iraq and one's "real" reason is US national security interests, then one is being deceptive in citing the UN resolutions as reason.

Since both reasons were cited by the US, there is nothing deceptive about it. Here is proof that both reasons were cited...

http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf

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Hmm...the title says it once, you've managed to say "Bush is a great President" enough times to get it close to double figures!

Now try and argue the fact that Dick Cheney is not the single greatest VP in our history...(i find your parrotting amusing so please reply with the same as you did for Bush).

History is not contemporary. We'll all have to wait and see how things pan out in future, (and on a world scale, not just Iraq), before such sweeping statements can be truly verified, for true greatness is rare in politics. Though it is fun to speculate. I quite like him.

Bush IS a great President. Well, maybe "great" isn't the right word, more like "effective". That may sound weird, coming from a moderate/liberal like me, but he, like Reagan, accomplished nearly everything he and the NeoCon revolution set out to accomplish.

Of course, that's easy to do when the "opposition party" was so emasculated and in such disarray after 9/11 that virtually anything Bush wanted to do, he simply did.

Bush is indeed great in the sense that our nation will never be the same. Shame.

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How exactly was Reagan a NeoCon?

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The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. - F.A. Hayek

-The Ludwig von Mises Institute
-Ron Paul 2008
-The Constitution of the United States of America
-I am the NRA

Sorry, bad phrasing.

Bush and the neocons accomplished everything they waited through the Interregnum to enact.

Effective in the same sense that Reagan accomplished virtually everything he wanted as well.

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