Excellent points "thugged out"!! Thanks for the response jagaltay bhoot. Do u think BUSH really wants to remove Saddam because he was a bad guy? Think about it. None of these things mattered when Rumsfeld supported Saddam full-heatedly around mid-80's. Even knowing that IRAQ was making chemicals.....U.S government (Raegan) didn't stop him! Instead they helped Saddam by selling whopping $1.5 billion worth of high techology, modern helicopters, for the war purposes! And yes as a result in 1988 Saddam killed tons of kurds! But if U.S was soooo concerned about this dictator and humanity then why didn't it do something then? Even after he killed kurds american DOW CHEMICAL sold million worth of pesticides to IRAQ despite the warning that IRAQ could later use it as agents in future war. In 1991, when US attacked IRAQ, kurds killing spree was barely mentioned. US was the key supporter of IRAQ then! So all of a sudden BUSH is concerned about humanity??? IT doesn't make sense! When we were at the war in Afganistan, americans seemed very vulnerable and sad. Because he couldn't find BIN LADEN, he wanted to divert our attention to WMD. It's because of his incapability to catch BIN LADEN made him turn to another war. It was the right opportunity for him to take advantage of vulnerable people "lying" that 9/11 and Saddam are connected! And then there were WMD problem......even if he found out that WMD was a threat then he should think through with it! UN backed BUSH's concern and let the inspectors go in and check.... nope they couldn't find anything!! What makes BUSH so sure that WMD is still there? He was acting all in anger not with a cool brain as a president of USA should do at the moment of crisis! US government didn't think long and hard about SADDAM ! NOPE! NADA! Did u know five hundred thousand children killed after the war (sanction)! Did americans care? NADA! US government takes only U.S citizens are human being not foreign citizens as human beings. IRAQ is now haunting US because they were the ones who helped IRAQ with chemicals. If u ask this today to our leaders.......they shamelessly deny it! Com'on be honest ! France and Germany did the right thing. Yes, sometimes u have to wait 20 yrs to make sure that u aren't killing innocent people instead of 20 seconds. I will call them wise leaders. Millions of people all around the world(including U.S) won't protest for nothing! BUSH Should get a clue! Some people consider it as a mini'vietnam war! Now that tells us something! U.S government is responsible about 2.5 million people who died in vietnam. I just don't want another war like that or similar! Haven't U.S government learnt their lesson yet? Everybody dislikes US's foreign policy. That's why they hate us. They consider BUSH as an "International Terrorist". In general I hate wars, ones who tries to extinct ciivilization in the name of war.....who should we be supporting ? People who are for civilization or for someone who tries to eradicate it? BUSH is not a god who thinks he can rule the whole world! If he stays for 4 more yrs....women in US will go back to 1940s position....not having the basic right to have a baby or not.... I think church and state should be separated! Just because he's religious doesn't mean we are! We need a president who lives in 2004 mentality! It is so silly to see him trying to stop that stem cell research! Did u know that Laura BUSH and BUSH's mom don't agree with him in this matter? He just wants the vote from churchgoers..who are his loyal followers.....Even just for this reason......there's no way I would vote for BUSH!