re: If you breed terrorists and waste military resources then you have also forgotten 9/11
I don't think Europe is irrelevant to the world and France is a big part of the EU. As to Kerry letting France define the rules of Engagement. Nonsense!
Mark wrote: I'm saying there was good reason to believe he would participate in a future event of that nature or repeat his atrocities in Kuwait.
All the reports on Intel say Hussein's army was greatly weakened after the first gulf war and had not recovered. This is not to say his son once in power mightn't have restarted the nuclear program or rebuilt the arm and attacked neighbors. It was just unlikely under Saddam. We had time to deal with him and instead Bush has placed us in a bad position troop deployments wise and created a breeding ground for terrorists.