Saddam's Capture: Still Does Not Justify Invasion of Iraq

" It doesn't change the basic situation on the ground in Iraq. It doesn't make the U.S. right for going in there. This war was sold on a whole set of lies. Capturing Saddam Hussein doesn't change that.''
-Jackie Cabasso, executive director, Western States Legal Foundation, USA

"Gloating over Hussein's capture doesn't make the situation over there any prettier. It's a mess. Things are not going well. And the international community is saying, 'The U.S. got itself into this mess, we're not going to send our troops in there to die, too.' ''
- Medea Benjamin, founding director of Global Exchange, San Francisco, USA

Joan Ryan wrote in San Francisco Chronicle:

If we can take Bush at his word, then Saddam's capture should mark the beginning of the war's end. We feared nuclear weapons, Bush said, even if Iraq didn't have an actual weapon yet, because Saddam was such a madman.

He was so intent on destroying the U.S., we were told, that he eventually would find a way to build something capable of mass destruction. So we had to get in there before it was too late.

After the tragedy of Sept. 11, national security adviser Condoleeza Rice said repeatedly, the American people would rather be safe than sorry. That's what justified the preemptive strike. Read More.....

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