[Mr.Kimball]

The gas attack on the Kurds in Northern Iraq happened in the last 80's and is yet another reason why the job should have been finished the first time but not a justification for the 2nd. Yes he was straight forward with the UN Inspectors, however, Scott Ritter U.S. Marine and HEAD UN Weapons Inspector spoke of how they did finally gain access to all interested sites and that he had NO WMD's. I hated Ritter and backed Bush but time has proven Ritter correct and myself and Bush wrong.

I cant disagree with that CatDawg, I though the Saddam should have been taken out at that time too. I was not favorable of that not being done at that time and I am still not. However one would have thought that even someone as defiante and unpredictable as Sadaam Hussein would have seen the awesome power of what the United States could unleash and would have changed policy and been more reverant and be compliant with the UN sanctions and mandates. Guess not , huh? BUT, what you are failing to remember is that that was a decision made by Bush #1. Are you failing to remember that after #1 that we went through 8 years of another administration that had no kahunas, period to do anything at all ? Saddam absolutley mocked and toyed with the Clinton Administration. You CANNOT blame anything that Bush #2 did based on what Bush #1 failed to do. There was a 10 year span between action and non action separated by a completely different administration. Right?