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"...and anyway, the US and its allies in the region (eg. Israel) are 'allowed' to have all the WMDs they want."
You're goddamned right we can. Because we excersize a little thing called "restraint." A concept that people like Saddam Hussein (may he be executed in the most painful means possible and burn in the darkest hole of Hell) would laugh at while having you tortured in front of your family for even suggesting. Let's think a little here...how long have we had these WMD's and had the restraint to not use them? Can you give me one instance where the US has nuked, gassed, or otherwise tried to obliterate an entire people? Even after September 11th? What do you think the bin Ladens and Husseins (remember the Kurds?) of the world would have done? I can tell you...and it wouldn't take a 9/11-esque massacre to provoke such an attack either. The only thing that would have to happen is a non-Islamic government (let's assume it was, oh I don't know...the Israelis) to "condemn" something that happened in a country run by this type of person, and that country, and it's people would cease to exist. Christ man, the Israelis, whom you apparently have no love for either, even have more restraint than these modern-day barbarians, though, admittedly less than the US. But can you blame them? They suffer attacks every fucking day that they have to live with. You sit on your ass in front of the T.V. at night ignoring those atrocities and telling yourself "they had it coming" and when they retaliate, again, with more restraint than the PLO, you say it is an unfounded attack on the poor defenseless Palestinians. You wonder why these innocent civilians are getting killed? Because they are the ones harboring and hiding the terrorists. And allowing the terrorists to hide behind them...not necessarily because they want to, but because they will be killed if they don't.
People like you almost make me ashamed to tell people I run into that I am an American. Almost. But I will still die to defend your right to hide behind the Constitution and the Stars and Stripes that I swore an oath to. Because don't have the intestinal fortitude to do so yourself.