"Perhaps, but in my defense, the admin has changed the reason(s) so many times that my PDA ran out of memory."
Then your memory is as faulty as that of your PDA.
ALL of those reasons for going into Iraq were espoused from the BEGINNING.
It was never a case of as one fell away, another was invented to take the previous reason's place.
And once again, as has been pointed out repeatedly, even those nations that didn't back the war in Iraq (France, Germany, Russia, Canada, among others) felt that Iraq:
1. Had chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.
2. May have had links to organized terror groups.
3. Had at least a basic nuclear weapons research and development program.
Yet people such as yourself ignore that, or choose to forget it. Is it, perhaps, too inconvenient to remember that? More importantly, if that's what you're counting on for your "defense," it only shows that you've ignored history as a means of fueling your own fury/fantasy.
Before the war in Iraq, even the Canadian government believed that Iraq had WMDs.
From a speech in Parliament, October 1, 2002, Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs (excerpt):
"Let us conclude with one last critical point. Our objective is to rid the Iraqi regime of weapons of mass destruction. There are those who claim that regime change is the only means to this end. If Iraq refuses to cooperate, they may turn out to be right."
Pretty clear statement of what the Minster thought about Iraq possessing WMDs.
Did the governments of all of these other nations also lie to their people?
"Hmmm... must be one of those "options" that everybody orders, because they are all equipped with it."
Everybody?
All?
Hmmmm.... Your selective interpretation of reality to meet your own fantasies is again rearing its ugly head.
In the same message that you pulled that quote from I gave you an example of a Muslim nation that does NOT repress women as do some other middle eastern nations...
Come on, you can do it, you can look back through my message and you can find the name of that nation...
TURKEY!
That's RIGHT!
Here's the name of ANOTHER Muslim nation in which organized repression of women isn't built into society as it is in some Muslim nations.
Indonesia.
I'm sure you've heard of that predominantly (88% +) Muslim nation. After all, it's population, nearly 240 million, makes it not all that much smaller than the United States, and which also makes it the world's most populous Muslim nation.
