The Case for a Pre-Emptive Strike on Iraq
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Did Vice President Dick Cheney make the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iraq?
That depends on how seriously you take the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th.
I spoke to a friend of mine last night who said Mohammad Atta's plot of 9/11 was a fluke that could not be repeated, and that we shouldn't attack Iraq — a country, in his words, which has never done anything to us.
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My friend is a very smart man, but he just doesn't take seriously the possibility that the events of Sept. 11 could repeat themselves. He thinks it was a one-time event and that now, it's over.
I don't. I think Usama bin Laden is or was a part of an axis of hate — an axis made up of Middle Eastern Muslim leaders who hate America for the power it has. A group that hates the fact that it doesn't have a competing superpower to play against us, or give them shelter from us.
They hate us because we are — in the odd description of Tom Delay a week ago — not just a super power, but a super-duper power. (I did say it was an odd phrase.)
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So did Saddam Hussein team up with bin Laden to pull off Sept. 11?
I think so, because Mohammad Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent before the attacks.
Do you have to believe in that link to justify an attack on Iraq?
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You have to believe Saddam is trying to build a nuke, and you have to believe he would use it here.
That's My Word.
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