The most powerful man in the world (Dick Cheney) finally explains why Hussein must go:
A nuclear-armed Mr. Hussein would “seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies, directly threaten America’s friends throughout the region and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail.”
I think it’s more clear and correct to just say that Hussein is the only dictator who posesses and has used weapons of mass destruction and has previously attacked his neighbors. That also answers Saletan’s critique of Armey’s confusing doctrine. However, Cheney’s line that “a return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever” is absurd, given that the (initial, unfettered) weapons inspections destroyed ten times as many weapons as were destroyed in the Gulf War itself.
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