Close your eyes and imagine Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Over there, Saddam would be trying to compete with Iran for nuclear weapons. Lybia would still have them.
Israel would have probably gone to war with Iran or Iraq.
Oil would be $100 a barrel, at least.
Over here, John Kerry would be giving speeches that Pres. Bush left a madman in power. Hillary Clinton would remind us that her husband's administration said that Iraq had WMDs and connections to Al Qaeda. Al Gore would argue that 9-11 changed everything and that the US can not afford to play "cat and mouse" with Iraq.
The lesson of North Korea, and soon Iran, is that you cannot allow these regimes to go nuclear. You cannot give them the benefit of the doubt because they have no intention of complying with any agreements.
Saddam won't be conducting any nuclear tests. He is in prison awaiting his eventual execution. Better than that, we don't have to hear John Kerry say that the Bush administration passed up an opportunity to take out Saddam before he conducted a nuclear test.
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Thank you for saying this. I don't understand why what you have said is not obvious to everyone. In fact, maybe you need to start shouting this from a few rooftops!
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