Was Saddam our real immediate threat or was it Bin Laden?

Question

After all Bush was advised by all advisors that Iraq was not the threat Bush made it out to be.
He would not wait for UN inspectors to even finish their work, what was the rush!

Answer 1

Neither.

Saddam was humbled and disarmed during Clinton's terms in office. He couldn't even fly and airplane of the ground for ten years. He was a threat to no one but Islamic Jihad. They had no welcome in Saddam's Iraq. He fought a costly stalemate war against Islamic Jihad (Iran) for 10 years.

Binladen just took advantage of a stupid, ignorant arrogant president who left the door open to 9/11. No way could Alqaeda sustain any kind of war in America. he had to use passenger aircraft as missiles for heaven's sake.

The threat was that Bush would be stupid enough to send the USA military over into Islam where Islamic Jihad could engage them on their home-ground.
Not only was he stupid enough to do it;......
but he invaded Saddam's Iraq, of all countries, the bane of Islamic Jihad. Bush took out Osama's worst Muslim enemy and its been all disaster since. The Shiite Islamic fundamentalists that Saddam fought have taken over the country.

Answer 2

Sadam was never a threat to the U.S. Not before
nor after the gulf wars. He always was a local bully.
And after Bush senior kicked him out of Kuwait he
wasn't even that anymore. Linking him with islamic
terrorists is a bad joke. Iraq was never a safe haven
for terrorists. Islamic fundamentalists were a threat
to him. And we all know what happened to threats
of that regime.

@veryeffective:

It doesn't matter what the democrats said. It just shows
that they were wrong too. But to their luck they were not
in office. And I doubt they would have rushed it like this...
if at all. However. Not knowing better is, as far as I know,
these days still a pretty lame excuse...specifically for
invading other countries on nothing but a fairytale.

Answer 3

Saddam was a bad dude who needed to be taken out, but not the way it was done.
Bin Laden was/is a threat and needs to be found and killed, not captured.
Unfortunately he has lit the fuse for militant Muslims all over the world and has in fact undermined his own position.
That is not to say he should be written off. 9/11 didn't happen overnight, it took possibly years to plan and organise so don't be surprised if he pops up again with something equally abhorrent.

Answer 4

Ok, first of all, they were both our enemies. Second, you are wrong as hell about saying we did not allow the UN time to fininsh inspecting. The Iraq government for years would not allow the UN security inspectors, who inspect the US as well, access to areas that were supposed to have been inspected. The UN published 14 resoultions, which are warnings to Iraq over the years and Iraq still did not comply. The US saw it to be in EVERYONE's best interest to take action.

This situation mirrored the Early 1930's when Adolph Hitler broke the Treaty of Verssalles and the League of Nations did not take action. This cost the live of over 10 million European citizens who were slaughtered in a mass genocide.

...The only difference here was that Saddam has already committed acts of genocide and they were ignored.

Answer 5

None - Bin Laden was in 2001 an old man on an artificial liver. Saddam was the Dictator of a war devastate country, who was crumbling faster then Bush's influence today.
9/11 was a huge security failure for the USA. With Condo Rice in the driver seat, Bush had cut of funding of Clinton initiated Anti Terror units, see official 9/11 report.
The 19 Saudis with box cutters on that day are forever the biggest embarrassment for the USA, oh no, its Bush as President now.

Answer 6

Neither, Bin laden only strikes on American soil every +11 years and Saddam was decades away of formulating his first plan of attack.

Bush ordered the UN inspectors out because he didn't want them to prove that Bush was a lying piece of crap.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

So the fact that Saddam had WMDs and used them not to mention his threats on America and his trying to build nukes that Israel took care of for us wasn't an immediate threat?

Go back to school little girl, you need to get past the second grade reading level.

Answer 9

Saddam was a big economic threat because he was going to switch the "oil exchange" to be in Euros. That would be a big blow to the value of the American dollar. I seemed like the U.S. had a cozy relationship with him prior to that.

Mr. Bin Laden was a patsy. Query "911 Truth Movement" for more information. I heard that Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. Can this be true?

Answer 10

Saddam was set up by our government. He was given the tools for destruction and then blamed to cover up our government's stupidity. He was hung like a rat, indecently and inhumanely without our intervention just so our hands could be washed and the truth would not be evident. Religion extrimism and lack of humanity, compassion, and respect is the threat, it has always been and will always be.