I can't believe we're still discussing WMDs. The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with "area denial weapons" (otherwise known as chemical weapons). It was about the fifth pillar of islam. The one that says "you must pay money to support jihad against the kuffar".
1. The moslems hit the world trade center. Yell "Praise allah -- allah is greatest" such as to strike fear into your enemies.
2. Surrender is not an immediate option because it would be bad for business (i.e. Republicans control congress).
3. Who do you hit back?
Whomever you can.
One is just as good as another, because they all support jihad against against the kuffar. We'd have invaded Morroco just the same as Egypt or Saudi Arabia or Turkey. They are all jihadist cessbuckets. The difference is we could justify Iraq and Afghanistan. There are liberals who say "OMFG!! BUT IT WASN'T JUSTIFIED!!" And yet, we managed to do it anyway. France, Spain, Holland, and Belgium didn't boycott us (consequently shutting down their own economy), nor did they invade us, nor did they send troops to stop us. We can discuss history, and certainly the invasion was poorly done -- it seems to be an actual failure of modern-era Republicans to understand secure borders. Area denial weapons were just the excuse, and it worked because the surrender monkeys had to wait for the election to do something about it.
Anyway, we destabilized the region. It is my utmost hope that, 25 years from now, GWB will be remembered as the guy who got us off oil. From 1950-2010 was a stable cesspool of economic survival, and only through destabilization and risk did we ever break the easy way (arab oil).
Iran will take over Iraq, and the ****es will annhilate (genocide? arabs against persians, maybe) the Sunni. Saudi Arabia will get a nice glut of al-Queda and other Sunni groups, and they'll start bombing their pipelines. Gas will go up like a Saturn-V rocket, rattling windows for miles around, and cities in California will start rolling blackouts even in the winter. Old people will be dying of heat exhaustion (and hypothermia) at a rate never encountered before (a thousand per month per 1,000,000 population), and interstate electrical transfer will be non existent (too much load on the steel wires).
At THAT point, we'll see some real progress. I hate that people have to die, that our country believes in emergency medicine instead of preventative medicine, that energy availablity has to become a survival crisis, but that is our entire history. It was that way in 1812 when our sailors were being impressed. It was that way during the War of Succession. It was that way with the Zimmerman telegram, and Apollo 1.
It logically has to be that way with oil. The sooner the better, because it will cost less.
edit-- Shi-ites. There are two i's in that particular english interpretation of the Shi'a, regardless of the word filter.
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