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Guest column: Iraq IS war on terror n A former top Iraqi general attests that weapons of mass destruction were moved out of Iraq after we attacked in 2003, via truck and air cargo into Syria. Satellite photos show heavy truck movement out of Iraq into Syria after the attack in 2003.
In conclusion, I ask the astute, objective and intelligent readers to conclude for themselves. Saddam had developed weapons of mass destruction, had used them, had dismantled some, had destroyed some, had moved some, and still retained the capability to use them again. We know that al-Qaida and Iraqis held many meetings, money changed hands, terrorist training occurred in Iraq, and al-Zarqawi moved freely in Iraq. Saddam thought that the French and Russian vetoes in the United Nations Security Council would prevent an armed invasion, so he never would “fully” comply with the weapons inspectors. He foiled the U.N.-imposed sanctions by payoffs to France and Russia via the sordid “oil-for-food” program. Just as he thought he could get away with invading Kuwait in 1990, an American president said no. Thank God for the Electoral College. Iraq is now the focal point on the war on terror. No longer does it offer safe harbor to Abu Nidal and al-Zarqawi. No longer does it threaten (or develop) WMDs. No longer does it subsidize suicide bombers in Israel, and no longer is the ultimate WMD — Saddam Hussein — free to torment, tease and threaten the free world. When Ronald Reagan was asked how he intended to address the Cold War, he replied, “We win and they lose.” If we “cut and run” from Iraq now, picture the consequences. They win and we lose, and the moderate regimes in the Mideast (Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc.) succumb to radical barbarism with the ultimate goal of obliterating the infidels. That would be us. All other issues pale in comparison to the issue of national security. Our survival is at stake. Iraq (for better or worse) has now become the focal point of the war on terror. We cannot, must not and will not lose unless we “cut and run” and the new liberal Congress denies funding to our gallant troops. Richard LaNear is the J.R. Kuhn Distinguished Professor of Finance at Missouri Southern State University. 
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