Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction has been the most hotly debated topic.
The question is whether we need to find WMDs or not.
Ricin, a chemical agent used in germ warfare was found and missiles, but not WMDs. Of course critics of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq will most likely never mention this.
The real key, since the United States decided to gain United Nations’ approval under Resolution 1441, is that Saddam Hussein had more than ample time to hide the weapons in Iraq or move them into another country.
It was Wednesday, March 19, 2003, when the United States started its campaign in Iraq.
That is a year and half after 9/11 had happened. Needless to say, Hussein benefited from the long-awaited U.N. approval.
Some say that we do not need to find WMDs because we freed a country of a tyrant. We did free Iraq and the Middle East from having to deal with a rogue state like Hussein’s Baathist Iraq.
Even this cannot be reason alone to send the U.S. military across the world.
If this were the case, we would need to be in North Korea, for one example, to liberate its people for Kim Jong-Il.
Let’s look at another argument. Why are we not in North Korea trying to find WMDs or liberating it?
North Korea has been shown a live example of the U.S. military strength because of the quickness of the war in Iraq.
Next, at this point, North Korea can be contained through economic sanctions. Plus, China will not let them become one of the chief states that we have to negotiate with in the Pacific. There is no reason to believe that China wants to be neglected by the United States.
Let’s say we found WMDs, would that still justify war? After all, do they have the capability to launch one from Iraq? Do they have a coalition to support them in a war with us?
There is proof that Iraq was a training ground for al-Qaeda. I cite articles in the New York Times and UK Guardian right after 9/11 saying that indeed Hussein had provided refuge to al-Qaeda.
The Baathist regime would have had the intent and munitions that al-Qaeda could have used sooner or later. If birds of a feather flock together, then it does not matter that bin Laden is a Wahhabi Muslim or that Hussein ran a secular state. They are both evil people.
To sum it all up, the WMDs are probably out of Iraq because we took so long to enter Iraq. Anywhere there is an evil regime other evil will cling to it whether in necessity or refuge. I believe al-Qaeda used the Baathist regime in Iraq for both reasons.

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