10. So that Team America: World Police would be made. Didn't see it 9. Regime Change and to Liberate the Iraqi People from Saddams Dictatorship A noble cause to be sure, but consider the attrocities occuring in Sudan. Would it not have been more noble to correct the injustices being done there? 8. Because Iraq has links to Al Queda. Perhaps a few people in Iraq had links to Al Queda, but the Iraqui government had fundamental conflicts with Al Queda, they were at philisophical war. 7. To be ABSOLUTELY sure that Iraq doesn't have weapons of mass distruction. Do you really want to take that risk? Would you want to have been the president who believed Saddam and allowed us or the middle east to fall under attack? One that could have been prevented if we had followed through and made ABSOLUTELY sure (because, you know, he's never lied before)? North Korea has nuclear weapons. No doubt about it. Iran has weapons of mass destruction, no doubt about it. Should we invade them just in case? You can't justify violating the sovereignty of a nation over a guess, or a gut feeling. 6. To show that even though the U.N. doesn't usually enforce it's own resolutions WE WILL. So should we follow all the U.N. resolutions? You know the UN maintains that civilians in the United States (and elsewhere in the world) should not be allowed ownership of personal firearms. Should we pick and choose the UN resolutions we want to obey? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the democratic UN? 5. To show that we are going to run an ACTIVE war on terror and to stay on the offensive in that war. So we invade a sovereign nation, armed with rumors which turned out to be untrue, just to make an example out of them? Who's next? 4. To scare anyone else who might be interested in weapons of mass destruction, or at least make them think twice and take us more seriously than they have in the past where we used sanctions and really really mean letters as our method to prevent their spread. Again, making an example out of someone. Someone who didn't really do anything. That's a great example. The United States punishes the innocent alongside the guilty, so you may as well fight us, because we're darn sure fighting you. 3. To create a major power that supports the United States in the middle east and hopefully begin to transform a hostile region into a less hostile one. Man, if only we had done that 50 years ago. 2. To finish what we started in 1991. Again, tough guy talk. Make an example out of them. Finish what we started. Show 'em who's boss. This isn't reasoning, it's machoism. 1. Because we can. Because might makes right, eh? This point is about as valid as #10. Actually, Team America has more merit than "Because we can."