reasons Iraq war was justified

Just a few reasons to boot Saddam:-Saddam paid 25K to each suicide bomber's family. As an example, an 18 year old muslim boy in HAMAS could strap a bomb to his chest, walk into an Israeli bus stop, kill 5 innocent women and children, and his family will receive 25 thousand dollars for it. -He gassed the kurds in his own country, killing 5, 000 in less than 3 minutes.-300, 000 corpses have been discovered from mass graves, and 700, 000 more expected to be found (estimates are he was killing over 30, 000 innocent people a month)-He invaded Kuwait, killing thousands in the name of his own financial interests-He murdered any political dissidents in country brutally, guilty or imagined-One of his sons would go to the local high schools, pick out the prettiest girl he could find in the bunch, take her back to his palace and rape her until he was bored. Then he would just kill her, or send her back in shame (unlikely)-He announced on Iraqi national television on atleast three seperate occassions before invasion that his citizens should attack Americans whenever and wherever possible-He was known to have WMDs in the past, and the very least had been trying desperately to recreate an arsenal-We've recovered something like 400, 000 tons of explosives, no doubt saving many lives-Rape rooms, torture chambers, chemical labs, etc.-It was made official US policy for a regime change in Iraq by congress and Clinton in 1998-Democracy for 25 Million citizens, including the suppressed Shi'ite majority-Civil rights for the millions of women in IraqIraq/Bin Laden Connections:-In mid-June, 1998, operatives of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda reportedly were at the al-Nasiriyah training camp in Iraq receiving instruction and training from Iraqi intelligence and military officials on reconnaissance and targeting American facilities -Another group of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives from Saudi Arabia reportedly were trained by intelligence officials in Iraq to smuggle weapons and explosives into Saudi Arabia, and, upon returning to Saudi Arabia, successfully smuggled weapons and explosives into that country. -A third group of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives reportedly received a month of sophisticated guerrilla operations training from Iraqi intelligence officials later in the Summer of 1998.- In mid-July 1998, Bin Laden reportedly sent Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian co-founder of Al Qaeda, to Iraq to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan. The reported purpose of this meeting was to discuss and plan a joint strategy for a terrorist campaign against the United States.-In addition to the al-Nasiriyah training camp, by January 1999, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda operatives also were reportedly being trained by Iraqi intelligence and military officers at training camps on the outskirts of Baghdad.-According to Czech intelligence sources, Mohammad Atta, the operational ringleader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, met in June 2000 with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a consul and second secretary at the Iraqi embassy in Prague. Al-Ani is one of Iraqi’s most highly decorated intelligence officers, a special forces veteran, and a senior leader of Iraq’s “M-8” special operations branch. Other reports indicate that Al-Ani may have met with another hijacker, Khalid Almihdar. This was confirmed by the country's interior minister.-Recent Iraqi defectors provide additional details of Iraq’s support for international terrorism throughout the 1990s. The Public Broadcasting Service documentary program entitled “Frontline” interviewed former Iraqi intelligence and army officers with first-hand accounts of highly secret installations run by an international terrorist known to Iraqi staffers only as “the Ghost.” “The Ghost” is reported to be Abdel Hussein, the chief trainer at a training camp inside Iraq, which includes the fuselage of a Boeing 707 jetliner that is used to practice hijacking scenarios. U.N. inspectors independently confirmed the existence of this particular training camp inside Iraq. -Former CIA Director James Woolsey believes that Iraq, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda conspired in the attacks on 9/11.-The Arabic language daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi first raised the issue of cooperation between Iraq, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in a late December 1998 editorial, which predicted that “President Saddam Hussein, whose country was subjected to a four day air strike (by Clinton in 1998), will look for support in taking revenge on the United States and Britain by cooperating with Saudi oppositionist Osama bin-Laden...“bin-Laden was planning moving to Iraq before the recent strike.” Also after the strikes Iraqi trade minister Muhammad Mahdi Salah reportedly stated that he expected terrorist activities against the United States to increase as a result of the bombing of Iraq. -Bin Laden reportedly visited Baghdad for consultations in March 1998. Giovanni De Stefano, an international lawyer visiting Baghdad on business, had a chance encounter with Bin Laden in the lobby of the Al-Rashid HotelThere is much more. People who try and act like the only justification for this war was oil, greed, power are kidding themselves. If the US only cares about oil interests, why didn't we take over Kuwait after going in there? There's countries we could invade, besides Iraq, that would've been EASIER to take over and would supply more of an oil profit for the bigwigs. We've lost 1,300 brave Americans and counting, not to mention the thousands of Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price. We are fighting a just cause, in a war that was needed to help secure an area of terror and tyranny. For those who disagree, it is a debateable issue we should all as Americans appreciate. But those in our country who wish for the demise of Americans, hope for an eventual defeat in Iraq, or personally attack our President or troops while we're at war should move to france.