That is the difference between being a leader and being an approval whore, a leader does what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, Kerry does what the EU wants to be done, whenever it serves his own personal interests to do it.

Quoted: Quoted: He waited 14 months! You don't put National Security over personnal ambitions you asshat! Sgatr15 Ok national security, were we in any way threatened by saddam? Nope. I am glad we got rid of him but its not like we couldn't have waited a little longer. And I think we could also have less strain on the military if we had built up more before invading.

Maybe we were maybe we weren't that wasn't the point, the point was after a decade of empty ultimatums Saddam had no fear of the US, which put us in a bad position to deal with other countries and groups, we had for years making hollow threats, these hollow threats gave rise to a belief in many areas of this world that if we weren't willing to take on Saddam when we were clearly in teh right to do so, meant that they could blow hit up and kill people in the US without fear, because the US was all talk and no action. Bush asked Saddam nicely to let the inspectors do thier thing without restrictions or get his ass handed to him, he chose to push the limits of a leader who was not interested in global populartiy and understood that there have to be consequences to be paid for inflamatory behaviour, whether that be crashing planes into civilian targets or leading the world to believe you have WMD while not allowing inspectors to prove you don't. Saddams only power came from the threat that he had WMD, not actually having them.