Originally posted by: PowerEngineer
Please don't pretend we are prepared to invade Iraq over our concerns for the Iraqi people!
The United States has been perfectly willing to stand by while people have been slaughtered under much more dire circumstances (particularly in Africa). And there's nothing new about these atrocities committed by Saddam; most of these incidents came to light more than a decade ago.
No, there's something else driving us now. It has to be 9/11; it has to be either a response to the vulerability we now feel, or just a need to strike back at someone (and why not Saddam?).