[CatDawg]

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?

I agree I think it should have been done during Bush 1 and I agree that Clinton let them toy with the UN and US. However, I still don't think we had justification to go back when we did. When you are dealing with situations like this I just don't see how you can pause and then decide to pickup later when basically nothing had changed. I know we gave the impression that things had changed but I think most of us can agree that they hadn't. Besides we could have kept him in check long enough to give all resources to finding Osama, then turned our attention more to him.