I have yet to see any credible evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and organized Islamic terrorism. To the contrary, I believe that Saddam Hussein was at least as fearful of Islamic terrorists as he was of G.W. Bush.

What do the Islamists want? They want temporal power to be vested in the Church, just like it was in Europe in Medieval times. Saddam was not an Islamist. Yes, he was a Muslim, but he was not a devout Muslim and he damn sure never wanted the Church to exercise any temporal power. He wanted all the temporal power for himself. He effectively kept the Shiite majority, from whose ranks any Islamist movement would be most apt to sprout, under his thumb.

Furthermore, I firmly believe that if Osama Bin Laden had been given an opportunity to assassinate Saddam and see an Islamist government put in his place, he would have done it in a heartbeat, fellow Muslim or not.

Now, back to the original question: "Why are you for the war?" I'm not. I was not opposed to the '91 Gulf War. I was not opposed to U.S. intervention in the Balkans. I was not opposed the ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan. But, to borrow from your own reason #1, I believe the reasons the government have given for this war (ie the possible terrorist threat Iraq posed, the humanitarian concerns about the regime, the WMD's needing to be got rid of etc) are the real reasons. I believe that they are noble goals. But, I believe that the benefits to be gained are outweighed by a tremendous number of possible, even probable, negative consequences. I would gladly be proven wrong in this belief, but only time will provide that proof.

Bruce