I also wrote this:
I too agree with the idea that there is more to this(the reasons for war) than what we all know and understand. I am not sure I want to know what it is because it just might tick me off that my husband, and other military like him ,are being put in harm's way for it. However, there are reasons to want Saddam out of the picture and yes he has done inhumane acts that need to be stopped from occurring again. As for the belief that our government is going to war because of it, well I don't buy into that. There are plenty of other countries that are equally inhumane (pick and Arab nation, any Arab nation!) and we do little about those places and we aren't going to war with any of them.
We have people in our country living below the poverty line and not receiving appropriate medical care, yet our president isn't outraged about that. It is not my belief that we are invading Iraq because we are now fed up with the way Saddam has been behaving. We are finishing something that was left unfinished 12 years ago. I would feel better if the president just said "Hey, we need to finish this up. It's a loose end." I don't see anything wrong with saying this if it is the truth, but sadly being truthful is not the tool of successful politicians. : (
Actually if the president just said "Osama and Saddam planned the WTC attacks. We have evidence to support it. We are going after Saddam." I would be able to accept that reason too. It makes sense. The other BS doesn't. At least not to me.
I think we should have taken Saddam out the first time, I guess if first you don't succeed...
I also feel that while I know what our country could do to them, I worry about what they will do to us in return. This worries me more than anything else. It is a culture our country has difficulty understanding, and this is why I am so concerned about what could happen next, I don't think we can predict it based upon cultural norms/mores.