Can’t you read?

I refer you to my post no 138

The whole issue is that the old weapons were supposed to be destroyed, but Saddam never complied with the demands to prove that they had been. The ball was in his court, and he gambled poorly assuming that his UN cronies making money off the oil for food scandal, along with the Russians and various European countries selling him weapons, would save his butt.

Grasping at every straw, eh? Yawn, wake me up when you have finally grasped that Iran-Iraq war and gasing Kurds took place 15-20 years before Bush came to power..

And Saddam got rid of those weapons after the war because he didn’t want his spotless humanitarian record blemished right?:rolleyes:

5. Support for Israel has to end. And if they’ve promised to never use WMDs, then why keep them?

Because Iran and Syria want/have WMD(or the means to produce them), and would like nothing more than for Israel to be erased from the map. When you look at the land mass of the middle east(Israel vs. the Arab nations), the population/conventional force sizes of the states around Israel, you can see why a deterrent needs to exist to counter this. Additionally, if Iran gets the bomb, you can bet other mid east nations are going to want nukes too, and that certainly isn’t going to make the region any more stable.

Your opinion of Iran is cartoonish deluded and absolutely idiotic. Despite its “Islamic” leadership 80% of the country are moderates. You think that whole country rides cammels, wears turbans and spends its days thinking how best to kill them self in the name of god.

It’s not the people of Iran that I’m concerned about. It’s the government, which has made some pretty alarming statements that causes me to consider them a threat.

Iraq had no WMDs. It was more than clear to everyone from the very start. Even to the bunch of losers from Bush’s government..

There’s a bunch of Kurds and Iranians that would disagree with this assertion.

If they had none, they, too, would not be able to sell, export or have it stolen. That means, no benefit, at all..

The benefit is that unstable(mentally or otherwise) regimes in the middle east behave more politely knowing Israel’s ability to utterly destroy them.

Pardon me, but exactly what is there beneficial to the rest of the world, by Israel having weapons like that?

So 2 wrongs make a right in your estimation? I’m not worried about terror organizations getting their hands on Israeli nukes(or Israel launching nukes at western nations, or Israel launching nukes to disrupt world oil supplies.)

Which leads us to EW/EA. Which I assume is a topic as closely guarded as stealth. You haven’t mentioned them. Are you confident in ruling them out?

I wouldn’t rule them out, but when you combine them with VLO, then they’re even more effective.