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Protecting The World from Weapons of Mass Destruction
Despite many false alarms, no such weapons have yet been found. The US refuses to let UN weapons inspectors back into the country. Looters have access to nuclear sites (Is this true? What nuclear sites? They didn't have a nuclear energy program), increasing the chances of other obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
Is it serious when a president lies? Click here for a CNN article by John Dean, legal consul to President Nixon during Watergate.
Liberating Iraq
The country is now mostly a violent anarchy, near civil war, with its cultural and educational centers looted and in ruin. Thousands of Iraqis are dead and maimed, many of them children. There are thousands of unexploded cluster bomb fragments still waiting to mangle more civilian bodies, and hundreds of tons of deadly Depleted Uranium dust lingering to continue to cause cancers and horrific birth defects. It's very difficult to claim that we've saved the Iraqi people from anything.
Supporting Our Troops
In the last decade, ten thousand brave Americans have died painful deaths from Gulf War Syndrome caused by the use of Depleted Uranium. Our leaders only pays lip service to supporting our troops, having first denied that Gulf War Syndrome exists, and still insisting that Depleted Uranium isn't dangerous at all, all the while constantly attempting to cut veteran's benefits.
A Strengthened United States
The war and the reconstruction of Iraq are vastly increasing our national debt, stifling our economy and putting more and more of a tax burden on our children. The defense contractors and oil companies are reaping these profits, along with the spOILs of war, at the expense of our economy and quality of our lives.
The USA as the World's Savior
Outside of the United States, the international community almost overwhelmingly now sees the US as an threatening aggressive force. We've undermined decades of sensitive diplomacy and replaced it with military and economic bullying.
Protecting the World from Terrorism
There have still been no significant links found between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Queda; They are sworn enemies. Now that we have destroyed Iraq without provocation, there will is likely to be much more violent hatred directed towards the United States.
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