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Purpose: To show that the American led invasion of Iraq was not a justified military action.
A Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, responsible for murdering his own people and abusing the democratic system for his own personal gain. Though regime change was ultimately in the best interest of the international community, though Saddam Hussein would have caused great harm to his neighbours and perhaps the US if given the opportunity, the United States was not justified in invading when it did or for the reasons it claimed.
1 The threat was growing, but it was not immenent
2 The fundamental reasons behind the invasion have not been proven valid
3 There were other approaches to the problem besides going to war
A Saddam Husein’s Iraq did not pose an imminent threat
1 There is no evidence to suggest that Iraq was responsible for the September 11 attack.
2 The intelligence community announced that the only threat that Saddam Hussein posed was in the event he was attacked.
3 Tom Ridge, secretary of Homeland Security, said that an attack against Iraq would could bring more terrorist attacks against the US
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b. Petersburg times, accessed on 28 November, 2004, “The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ‘might decide’ to help Islamic terrorists attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction if the U.
4 The artillery shell found in iraq containing sarin is not evidence of an illegal WMD program
a. Pressuring the UN to continue sanctions would prevent Saddam from having the opportunity to develop WMD. Ten others were tested in simulated firing using the sarin precursors. North Korea and Iran have publicly admitted to pursuing nuclear weapons, and yet we do nothing. irector has testified that Saddam Hussein is more likely to use chemical or biological weapons if he is attacked
a. According to the Christian science monitor, in an article entitled “Iraq Sarin Shell is not Part of a Secret Cache,” accessed 30 November, 2004, “Iraq declared that it had produced 170 of these base-bleed sarin artillery shells as part of a research and development program that never led to production. In the years after the 1991 gulf war, 95% of Iraq’s WMD was accounted for and destroyed. And 150 of these shells, filled with sarin precursors, were live-fired at an artillery range south of Baghdad.
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