The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

... none of which are Ansar Al-Islam, which was my criticism.

Iraqi intelligence had contacts with, and probably off-and-on gave minor support to, various terrorist groups, trained guerilla fighters in terror tactics, and whatnot. However, if this is now a casus belli, you should probably just up and declare war on the entire middle east, because that's true of most countries over there. Indeed, you'd have cause to declare war on yourselves, because the US record for supporting terrorism is far from lily white.

There is more than one way to skin a cat. Iraq was the case where negotiation and diplomacy were not going to work, and had proven unworkable over two decades.