> What about the 500,000 people who would have starved to death waiting
> for UNMOVIC to give the go-ahead for the lifting of sactions? (Somewhere
> between 1 and 1.5 million Iraqis died as a direct result of UN sanctions
> durring Clinton's "quiet" eight years in office, by the way.)
>
> Or Saddam's political prisoners? Or their family members who were often
> tortured and exicuted along with them? Or the women who had to live with
> the shame of being gang-raped in front of their husbands?
>
> Should this have been allowed to continue indefinitely?

Maybe not, but why does the U.S. have to play big brother and stick their noses where they don't belong?
The reason we have terrorists is because they're pissed off that the U.S. is constantly assuming that their responsible for running the whole world.

Put it this way, if the Mayor of Toronto was torturing people and holding people hostage here, hell yeah, I'd be pissed off.
But if Russia suddenly came over here without being asked and bombed the hell out of Toronto and stuck soldiers on all of our streets and they were still occupying my city 10 years later, how do you think I'd react.
I'd be pissed off at Russia for sticking their noses where they don't belong. No matter what their intent was or what reason they were here, they weren't invited or asked to be here.
I'd be telling them to get the hell out of our city and mind their own business and stop trying to push their way of life down everybody's throats.
And if they didn't get out I'd do anything in my power to get them out.
If that meant sneaking people into their country to destroy their way of life just to make a point because it was the only way to fight back, then so be it.
That's when you get terrorists.