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Finally, President Bush said what I have been urging him to say about the war on Iraq for many months – that this is not just about United Nations resolutions being violated, it’s not just about weapons of mass destruction being developed, it’s about Baghdad supporting al-Qaida terrorism against the United States of America.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is scheduled to provide more specifics on the Saddam Hussein-terrorism connection this week.
Why is this important?
Because the Iraq military campaign is clearly an extension of the war on terrorism – a war the American people solidly support.
Remember, after Sept. 11, the United States invaded Afghanistan. We attacked because of the presence of al-Qaida bases and because the Taliban government refused to cooperate in turning the terrorists over to us. Afghanistan was developing weapons of mass destruction. Afghanistan wasn’t in violation of any U.S. resolutions. We attacked for one reason and one reason only – the presence of al-Qaida. The world mostly supported us. Congress supported the action. The American people supported it.
We didn’t stop at routing out al-Qaida in Afghanistan. We chased the Taliban out, too. And that is the model we need to follow in Iraq. Clear objectives. It’s a defensive action, because we were attacked. We clean out the terrorists’ nest. We clean out the terrorists’ sponsor. Finding and destroying weapons of mass destruction should only provide added incentive for us to do this now.
Here’s what we know about this terrorist presence already – before the details are provided by Powell:
- Iraq has supported al-Qaida for more than a decade;
- al-Qaida has operatives in Iraq today;
- Iraq has assisted al-Qaida with the purchase of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons;
- Iraq has never stopped its covert attempts to develop weapons of mass destruction;
- Iraq itself has been implicated in terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Some may take issue with the points above, but they are established fact for intelligence experts around the world. There is no doubt. WorldNetDaily has reported on all of this prior to Sept. 11 and subsequently.
Wasting any more time debating the merits of continued weapons inspections merely places more American lives at risk. It’s time to answer the bell that was rung loud and clear on Sept. 11. It’s time to avenge our losses and ensure there is a clear deterrent for any other terrorists out there to try something like that again. It’s time to go after Iraq.
Is this the final campaign in the war on terror? Hardly. There are other regimes in the world still supporting al-Qaida and other dangerous terrorist allies. Their time will come. But now we are ready to take on Saddam Hussein in a final showdown. He must not remain in power any longer. It’s time to liberate Iraq the way we liberated Afghanistan.
Now that President Bush is taking my advice and refocusing the nation on the real reasons for war with Iraq, I have every confidence that 90 percent of Americans will get behind this fight.
Everyone remembers Sept. 11 – and that is what this fight is about.
Something else very positive may yet emerge from this campaign: The U.N. may be deemed irrelevant by most Americans.
President Bush was right to say in the State of the Union Address that the U.S. will act decisively with or without the U.N.’s approval. We don’t need it. And, frankly, we shouldn’t want it. We shouldn’t want it because it always comes with political strings attached.
The reason we’re about to attack Iraq for the second time in a decade is because President Bush’s father was so wedded to the idea of a multinational coalition operating within the context of a U.S. campaign.
That was a mistake then, and it would be a mistake again today.
The U.N. was not attacked on Sept. 11. France wasn’t attacked on Sept. 11. Germany wasn’t attacked on Sept. 11. We shouldn’t expect any of those entities to feel our pain, to grieve our losses, to fight our fight.
This is our fight – let’s get it on.
