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1. The bottom line is that the war on terror is primarily Jihad driven and Iraq was funding the terrorists.
That war on terror. But you failed to deal with your criteria problem. You justified invading Iraq based on criteria that we could apply to other nations and even to the history of the US. If we are to accept your criteria, what would exist to make us stop at Islamic terrorism and not Russian State backed terrorism?
And Iraq was barely funding the terrorists. As I noted, the payments didn't cause the attacks to start and when the payments stopped, the attacks kept going. Hardly good justification to invade when the donations coming out of Saudi Arabia are massive compared to the occasional $60,000 payment. If you want to stop the funding, you need to change the whole money wire system that has existed in Islam for hundreds of years.
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2. Inspectors were banned from strategic areas which were where the inspectors needed to go and where satellite photos indicated suspicious activity.
Perhaps so, but we didn't find anything after. Furthermore, the satellites did not detect know gases. We have satellites that can pick up parts per billion of specific gases we know are byproducts of certain weapons productions. None of that was found. You're telling me that the Iraqis, after decades of sanctions found ways to conceal production in ways that the US and USSR couldn't at the peak of their military power?
Seriously.
Try again.
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3. The consensus of many is that by banning inspections in strategic locations time was bought to export and move weapons to friendly havens to avoid detection.
No it wasn't. There was no such consensus. Furthermore, we have completely failed to find any paper trail, any worker, any trucks that moved any such alleged weapons. On top of your arguments, we have failed to find production and storage facilities. How the heck did Saddam make weapons without the means to produce, store, transfer and use? Why is that we haven't found Iraqi soldiers trained to use chemical weapons? Hell, the last chemical weapon we found was from the Iraq-Iran war and it wasn't even viable. As for the intel 'consensus' the Chezks and Germans flagged Curveball. Even the CIA stated he was a "drunken liar." And Chalabi DELIBERATELY fed us lies. There is a reason we have a indictment for his arrest RIGHT now.