>The U.S. "did it" to the Iraqis despite their having NO INVOLVEMENT in the 9/11 attacks, and the casualty counts of Iraqis was severe in the actual war itself.
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>Let's assume for one moment that Iraq had zero connection with bin Laden (which is not true, but let's assume for one moment that no connection existed). Hussein was guilty of....

Hussein was distrusing of bin laden and did not train them or provide them wih arms.

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>- Torture of political dissidents in Iraq
>- Taking money and resources sent as aid for the country, and using it for his own gain
>- Repeated and continuous violations of U.N. resolutions
>- Paying 25-30K for Palestinian suicide bombers
>- Attempting to purchase nuclear material from the Russian black market
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Pick a lot of africian countries and they will at the very lest fit the bill of the top two and in some case the last. Somalia will also take in number 3. also in a lot of these cases the regimes pay soldiers who are then used to wipe out villages and towns, akin to number 4


>Pre-emptiveness is a necessity. Had we taken out countries like Iraq, Syria, and Iran, it could have prevented 9-11.

since it has been proven that almost all of the people came from the US ally Saudia Arabia, a pre-emptive strike of these countries would have done nothing to avoid 911

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>Kevin