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Originally posted by Shortfuse
But WMD was the issue because we believe he was going to attack us with them. Much of the talk was about pre-emptive strikes to protect AMERICAN LIVES.
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That's exactly what the war did though according to the 9/11 Commission. It prevented Saddam from being able to produce the WMD that he wanted to produce. That's a matter of fact. WMD in his hands were reasonably deemed more dangerous than WMD in anyone else's because he wasn't afraid to use them.
I believe that 10-20 years down the line, we would have had to invade anyway. Especially after say a chemical barrage on Israel with the Al-Samoud missiles he had that were capable of transporting chemical warheads to Israel -- that is very obviously what they were developed for.
The attacks according to the 9/11 report did in fact stop him from producing WMD's preemptively. We'll never know how many lives that saved. Probably quite a few.