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You're right. 12 years of diplomacy isn't enough. Yeah right.

There were very many links to terrorists, you just refuse to believe them, not the least the fact he had for years been paying the families of suicide bombers $10K-$25K each. Also Saddam did have WMDs and programs, try reading the Kay report for a change.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2003/04/27/walq27.xml

http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/ terrorism/raid_ansar_al-qaida.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/27/iraq/mai n551246.shtml

http://www.techcentralstation.com/092503F.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0402/p01s03-wome.htm l

http://www.terrorismanswers.com/sponsors/iraq.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/cfr/stories/iraq/

http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/text2003 /0430trrpt.htm

For all the "Morocco has lots of terrorism" posts such as yours, I haven't seen one which mentions that Spain has a history much more tainted by terrorism and repressive governments than Morocco - mostly revolving around the struggles and subsequent political supression of sometimes-violent Basque separatists, by the far-right government (and before that, Franco's). A little more information can be found at this site.

This is simply not true. In 2001, the US spent about $10 billion in foreign aid, out of $50b worldwide. However, as a fraction of our GDP, our contributions are the smallest of any of the OECD countries, and as little as a tenth of the northern european countries.

This year, of course, we have an $87b spending spree. Only $20b of that is going towards reconstruction, though (the rest pays for the military). As for whether that's foreign aid or payment for damages is up to you.

Private aid might even score somewhat-- counting foundations, NGOs, private people sending money to their families, etc., the US sends $35b abroad every year. I can't find any equivalent statistics for other countries, though.

About 2% of charitable donations in the US leave the country.

References--
1, 2, 3

Kindly do some research on them before creating conspiricy theories. Thankyou.

Are you seriously suggesting that keeping around 200 alleged terrorists locked up without due process is somehow comparable to killing 5000 civilians with chemical weapons?

It was a poor example of the reprehensible behaviour (including terrorism as defined here or here) that the US has been known to engage in.

Other things that fund terrorism:

Drugs Fund Terrorism
The Drug War Funds Terrorism
Porn Funds Terrorism
Saudi Arabia Funds Terrorism
Also, Diamonds, Weapons, Charities, Muslims, Extortion, bin Laden, and Al-Queda funds terrorism

Remember that terrorism is when civilians are the target. Here's a good definition.

Here's Iraq's ambassador to the UN defending the payout to Palestinian bombers.
Here's some additional reading material on other terrorist groups Iraq supports.

Diplomacy has been proven throughout history to do nothing to stop terrorism. Saddam is not giving up his WMD programs and he is going to do whatever it takes to hide them. The whole point of taking him out without years of additional delays is to ensure that he doesn't aid terrorists by giving them these weapons. Based off Saddam's history of actions, he would have no qualms about doing this.

I was wrong about the comma. Leave it in if you're going to keep the sig. :)

-Lucas

Remember that terrorism is when civilians are the target. Here's a good definition.

Here's Iraq's ambassador to the UN defending the payout to Palestinian bombers.
Here's some additional reading material on other terrorist groups Iraq supports.

Diplomacy has been proven throughout history to do nothing to stop terrorism. Saddam is not giving up his WMD programs and he is going to do whatever it takes to hide them. The whole point of taking him out without years of additional delays is to ensure that he doesn't aid terrorists by giving them these weapons. Based off Saddam's history of actions, he would have no qualms about doing this.

I was wrong about the comma. Leave it in if you're going to keep the sig. :)

-Lucas