1. I have heard so many times the argument that Saddam Hussein was plotting an assassination attempt on the first President Bush. First, the evidence linking him was circumstantial, and he also took a few ICBM’s for it, and second, we talk about assassinating Saddam Hussein all the time on Prime Time television. If your defense of this argument includes the line “Saddam is a tyrant and Bush was not”… save it.
2. “He gassed his own people”. I’ve heard this in every single argument favoring an invasion of Iraq. However, it’s quite regretful that we fail to complete the sentence by not adding “…with our chemicals, our logistics and our political support”.
3. And then there are those who say “peace loving people” will give up anything for the sake of peace, and don’t want war to solve the current issue. Then I should be correct in my assertion if I say that those who demand war are not “peace loving”, shouldn’t I?
4. Of course, no argument is complete without expressing deep sympathy towards the people of Iraq. Seems like the top priority right now is to free the people of Iraq from the dictatorship of Hussein. I wonder if we have the same plans for the people of N. Korea, Iran and pretty much most of Africa?
5. There is another argument, which is usually used as a last resort, to induce fear in the hearts of people everywhere. Saddam Hussein they say, HAS nuclear weapons and WILL give them to a terrorist organization such as Al-Qaida for detonation on U.S. soil. If that’s not frightening enough, they use graphical expressions such as “a dark mushroom cloud over Manhattan” (I believe Condoleeza Rice gets credit for this one) and “millions of dead Americans” to paint a very untrue picture of the real world. In reality, there is no evidence Iraq even has any nuclear capabilities or that Saddam Hussein is willing to waste a nuclear weapon by giving it to terrorists and not hanging on to it as a bargaining tool. Besides, if I recall correctly, in 1991 U.S. troops were within days if not hours of capturing the Iraqi capital. Saddam Hussein had every reason to believe that he was going to be taken out. Yet, to this day there is no credible evidence that the Iraqi army used chemical or biological weapons against allied troops, Israel or Saudi Arabia. Why would he want to do it now, of all times?