Kevin,

Why Saddam could not use torture against those whom you call "Political dissidents" but he might've call them "terrorists", You approve torture if it is done by the US on whoever US labels as terrorist, right? Oops, sorry I meant "enemy combatants"

Since when corruption of the leadership is enough for destroying it's country? Do you know how many countries need to be leveled?

Repeated and continuous violations of U.N. resolutions, just like the US and Israel, I do not see you outraged by that

Paying suicide bombers??, Kevin, they are dead, they do not need money!! <g> Yes, I know you mean their families, but, wouldn't be better to find out why people gets so desperate to kill themselves in order to provide for their family instead? The religious fanatism card can not be used, otherwise money would not be important.

The last one is very difficult to prove either way, but you should be worried that there is a Russian black market, and not worry to much about the customers, I think they will probably be equally bad, and I never read about anyone doing anything to stop that black market, maybe US should bomb Russia and all those countries with difficult names, it was easy when it was the USSR.

And then you say pre-emptive attacks are a necessity, but only one of your so called "Justifications" represented some kind of danger to the US, we can certainly discard corruption and torture of non-us citizens, as it only involves Iraqui citizens, and the third one concerns more to Israel than to the US. And well, if U.N resolutions violation are enough justification for a pre-emptive attack, well... you know...