Sorry for the delayed response.
#1. Legitimate according to whose opinion? Yours? Was the campaign in Bosnia illegitimate then?
Not talking about Bosnia here, try to stay on subject. I said the WMD threat was the only legitmate reason to go to war. You're asking "legitmate according to whose opionion?" suggests that you don't think it was a legitmate reason to go to war or you're just arguing for the sake of arguing.
#2. Osama and Al Qaeda are not the be all/end all of terrorism. The quote clearly says "support for terrorism" not "support for Osama and Al Qaeda". You do understand Al Qaeda is only one group out of many?
In case you forgot, Osama and Al Quada were the ones responseable for 9/11. They're the ones who attack the US, not the ones Saddam may have been funding. I don't want my fucking tax dollars going into taking out terrorists that were created due to another nation's war (ie. Russia's czech terror problem).
And I have yet to see on mainsteam news any proof Saddam's reigme were funding any terrorists at all. I think that pretty much scraps that reason.
#3. The UN doesn't handle it. So yes, the US is the police of the world when it is in our national interests. That's just how the world works.
You won't catch me voting to go to WAR and risk American lives and tax dollars over another nation's "civilian persecution" problem. UN can handle it. You say it's in our national interests... is that because of the oil? Honestly things were a lot better before the war with oil. Now we have a bunch of muslims and arabs trashing the oil pipelines and gas prices have skyrocketed since the war.
Either explain to me how it was in our "national best interest" or I'll just assume you're full of shit and just blindly following your party's propaganda.
#4. It wasn't up to us to find POW's, it was up to Saddam to account for them. He never did.
One nation does not go to war with another nation and risk thousands more lives over Prisoners of War and "stolen property". That's ludicrous.
And I'm asking you now, have we even found any PoWs still in Iraq from the gulf war? I didn't think so. Another bullshit reason.
#5. Saddam spending the Oil for Food money on weapons is not a threat to us? Were you paying attention when he was firing SAM's at our aircraft every day? It takes money to buy arms and if you are getting billions under the table from your buddies in France and Russia, you can buy a hell of a lot of arms. Who do you think he was buying them to fight, Kuwait again? Don't be ridiculous.
I'm sorry... what weapons? You mean the completely outdated weapons that the US army was able to overtake in Baghdad in less than month? Or the weapons of mass destruction that were never found?
And Iraq has no-fly zones just as every other fucking country in the world has no-fly zones.
Next time think about how easily your opinions are shot down before posting. The key to debating is knowing both sides, not just your own. You don't see your own weaknesses if you fail to prepare this way.
Please.. it's pathetic watching you try and defend reasons that you and I both know had no shred of legitamacy in them. The WMD threat was the only legitmate reason to go to war. Did you ever think that maybe that's why Bush didn't let the weapon inspectors finish thier job? If they ended up not finding any WMDs we wouldn't have had any legitimate reason to go to war.