OG:

Saddam's support of terrorism is vague; I won't argue that he didn't but the problem is that terrorism is too lartge a condition to be used as "the enemy". The terror caused by the US in various attacks agianst civilians over the years is enough to make it clear that we are on that list too.

But he did not make any deals with Al Quaeda as far as anyone has shown me. And out immediate enemy is AL Quaeda. Bush took something AL Quaeda did (an act) and claimed that all instances of that act constituted the nation's enemy, which is really stupid. It is also slippery, because if you can sell that bill of goods you get carte blanche to wage war at will. War thus becomes a matter of leader's opinion instead of national policy.

Now, who would want to do such a thing?


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