In my opinion to go to war there must be with out the shadow of a doubt that this is in the best interest of the country. You can’t rely on so called sources and what they’re telling you, and not have any sort of hard facts to back up your claim. Evidence is easier for the public to believe than a person saying “I think that they are developing weapons”, a

nd basing your entire reason for sending thousands of young men and women to die fighting a fight that shouldn’t be fought in the first place. Usually when America engages in an attack against another country there will be overwhelming evidence to support the need to go there and take part in the confrontation. For instance more recently, the situation in Yugoslavia with Slobodan Milosevic. President Clinton knew what was going on there, but had to wait to gather enough evidence and wait for Congress’ approval before sending bombers into the region. There are many other cases in which a President may have wanted to go into a country but they followed the proper protocol. President Bush on the other hand didn’t have enough evidence to substantiate his claim, of there being an imminent threat in Iraq. The United Nation’s Securities Council reported that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and former weapons inspector Scott Ritter said “Iraq is not a sponsor of the kind of terror perpetrated against the United States on September 11 and in fact is active in suppressing the sort of fundamental extremism that characterizes those who attacked the United States on that horrible day”(Unnamed author). Even with this evidence form an international committee Mr. Bush went with the intelligence gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). CIA Director George Tenet had two sources that he believed were credible. “One source “with direct access to Saddam” told a U.S. ally that Iraq was aggressively seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, had chemical weapons and was “dabbling” with biological agents”. Basically we went to Iraq just for the fun of it, and perpetuated the stereotype that all Middle-Eastern nations want to see the demise of the

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