Originally posted by BP:
personally i don't believe that the bush admin would have gotten the green light for pre-emptive attack based on your 4 points alone. they needed to make a link to al qaeda, 9/11, nuclear weapons, wmd stock piles, terror camps, mobile weapons labs, etc in order to beef up their case for war and get congressional approval to use force.



It wouldn't have been a pre-emptive attack, though, it would have been a reactive attack. It would...and SHOULD...have been:

"Iraq has been delinquent in meeting its obligations to the UN and has been actively aggressive against Coalition forces and its own population, and after the past decade of permissiveness from UN member nations, the United States has determined that said behavior is demonstrative of the Hussein regime's desire to continue in its extremist, expansionist, and belligerent behavior. This will be put to an end by force unless said activities cease immediately and Saddam Hussein steps down and allows a multilateral democratic government to form in his place."

"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.