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• A reply on Conversation: Debate: The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the right decision.

  Nov 27 2012: War has been the practiced method before our written history began. It is not the right method, I fully agree with that point, but war is sometimes necessary. Was the Iraq war necessary?

• A reply on Conversation: Debate: The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the right decision.

  Nov 27 2012: But if you had to answer right now, with all the evidence that has been presented, what would you argue?

• A reply on Conversation: Debate: The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the right decision.

  Nov 27 2012: What other methods would you personally suggest?

• A reply on Conversation: Debate: The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the right decision.

  Nov 27 2012: There was evidence from eyewitnesses that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on his own people (the Kurdish people of Southern Iraq) and so it could be argued that Hussein was prepared to use weapons of mass destruction. Iraq did not allow terrorists to be extricated and this way could be argued that he was in support of terrorists. As the Bush doctrine goes a country is either with the US or against.

• A comment on Conversation: Debate: The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the right decision.

  Nov 27 2012: The decision to invade Iraq was the right decision as America was faced with a dictator who had used chemical weapons and harbored a terrorist group who attacked US soil.