Eliminating Saddam equals War is Won

Submitted by Jon Hall (United States), Apr 3, 2006 at 16:12

Mr. Pipes equates winning the Iraq war with the removal of Saddam Hussein so obviously we have won the war. But using this single measure of winning presupposes that Saddam represented a true threat to us. Can we say he did? I don't think so because without the wmd, he was nothing.

Now thanks to having "won" that war, we have Iran on the way to nuclear weapons along with the missiles to deliver them. We have an insane dictator in North Korea with fully developed weapons. And because we have entered this endless war in Iraq, we lack the clout necessary to influence either of these two countries, and they know it.

The American people are beginning to believe that the war with Iraq was a huge mistake, and they don't believe that the world is now a safer place for having "won" this war.

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