I guess it's sort of a catch 22 anyways. The arguement that they weren't an immediate threat at that time I can't agree with given the climate and the biligerence that Sadaam displayed. That is if you concede there were WMDs or even believed the seemingly faulty intel (like our congress and most of our allies who weren't invovled in underhanded dealings that undermined UN sanctions). The Iraq war is not the reason our economy is in shambles.
Political climate....as in America had just decalared war on Terrorism, those who harbor and support. Belligerence...as in Sadaam posturing as if he had caches of chemical and biological weapons (he gased the Kurds), and publicly supporting suicide bombing by giving the bombers' families money. As in defying the UN on inspections. As in taking humanitarian money for food and using it for his own profit.
Oh, is that right? George W. Bush, with the GOP led Congress, cutting taxes numerous times while the nation was fighting two wars, one an incredible blunder based on lies from the same administration (that would be Iraq), cutting taxes during wartime for the first time in the nation's history, to my knowledge, had nothing to do with our present economic state? Sure.
