First of all, I got your Chickenhawk. Bite me.

I joined the United States Army in 1976 as a member of the now disbanded Women’s Army Corps. I’m a veteran of Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have been to Europe, Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and all over the US. My duty assignments included: 1st Armored Division, 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd COSCOM, EUCOM, and 101st Airborne. I retired from the Army in December 2006, as Sergeant First Class.
I’ve got more time in the chow line than you have on earth. So you can kiss my ass.

Secondly, If you had any fucking brains or any kind of an attention span you would have remembered this:

1) Declassified NGIC report:

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Iraq_WMD_Declassified.pdf

2) 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm

3) 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html

4) Chemical warheads containing cyclosarin:
http://www.bizzyblog.com/PolishChemMunitions070204.html

5) Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm

6) Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html

7) Last major stockpile from Saddam’s nuclear efforts arrives in Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein’s most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government’s first extensive comments on the looting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/international/middleeast/13loot.html

Dave Gaubatz, a former US Air Force special agent, passed on vital intelligence to the Iraq Survey Group about weapons bunkers he discovered, and was ignored.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/29092/part_1/i-found-saddams-wmd-bunkers.thtml

Those weapons were previously unknown to U.N. inspectors.

Oh yeah, and Hussein’s terrorist connections:

He gave thousands of dollars to families of suicide bombers and in addition, Iraqi intelligence met with al Qadea operatives and provided terrorist training camps in Northern Iraq:

The Mother of All Connections

From the July 18, 2005 issue: A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda.

by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn

07/18/2005, Volume 010, Issue 41

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/804yqqnr.asp?pg=1

Saddam Hussein, as evidenced by the WMD found, his previous use, continued willingness to use them, and the documents discovered which connected him to terrorists, was a threat. The fact remains that the inspectors got absolutely nowhere with regard to full disclosure of Hussein’s WMD program.

I’m an Iraq War vet, and I’m damned glad we not only invaded, but took out the sonofabitch and got those WMDs before anyone had the chance to use them. Had I the power, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran (for starters) would have been asphalt parking lots on 12 September 2001. But, I’m a former Soldier, not a diplomat.

Hussein wasn’t the only threat. Just one of them. But, not anymore, is he?

I also fought for this country and YOUR right to the 1st Amendment, so you can shove your condescending bullshit up your ass, sweetpea.

Tell you what, when you get done humping Obama’s leg, you can talk to me. Until then, shut the fuck up.

Oh yeah, BTW: Those scumbag terrorists being held at GITMO were captured after firefights and arrested as part of sweeps for terrorist cells. I won’t lose one minute’s sleep over it, either. Maybe you could pay a visit to GITMO and tell the Soldiers whose job it is to guard them, all about your bleeding heart sympathies. Don’t expect them to take you seriously.
SFC MAC

If the government can imprison people, any people, even American citizens, without having to show why they are imprisoned and tell us when and how they will be released, we have become the USSR under Josef Stalin.

I don’t think Stalin is a good role model.

I am a United States Army veteran E-5 (and you are a chickenhawk), and I will always defend your First Amendment right to hate the principles that made out country great. At the same time I will point out that you want to follow the examples of brutal dictatorships, and permit the government to capture, imprison and torture people without having to show that they did anything wrong.