How can we not go to war with Iraq?

Through A Glass Darkly, by John Myers, Internet Photojournalist
When we wake up Thursday morning, it will likely be to news that the long-awaited war with Iraq has begun. Maybe that will end the endless speculating of why we should do so.
The appropriate question in my mind is not why or whether we should go to war with Iraq. It's how can we possibly not go to war with Iraq, considering what we all know now?
Is there any doubt that if we hadn't stopped Saddam Hussein in 1991, that he would now be sitting on a golden throne in Saudi Arabia, presiding over the world's biggest oil wells?
Is there any doubt that if he could find a way to use his biological and chemical weapons on the United States, that he would pause even a second? Or even worse, what he would do if he got his hands on a nuclear weapon? If he had the means, what happened on 9-11 would be just a warm-up exercise for how much America is hated by some Arabs.

Why debate about Iraq's WMDs?

And how can the so-called experts debate over whether Iraq has biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction right now? He has used chemical weapons on Iran and on his own people and we captured and destroyed stocks of them during the first Gulf War.
We didn't even scratch the surface of invading Iraq after driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait in 1991, so what will we find when we do invade the interior and uncover his hidden sites? So how can France and Russia claim they believe Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction, and threaten to veto any United Nations resolution to go to war with him?
You don't suppose it's because war will expose their dirty laundry of buying Iraqi oil in exchange for illegal weapons, do you? And guess who will be elbowing their way to the front of the line for commercial deals with the new Iraq, after Americans win the war?
Shortly after 9-11 President Bush said the war on terrorism would reveal who our friends are and who our enemies are, and if you have any doubts about the so-called allies of America after watching the shenanigans in the U.N., you haven't been paying attention.
One possible outcome of this mess -- in addition to knowing where we really stand with the French and the Russians -- is the time may have come to move our military bases out of Germany. Like the French, the Germans have obviously forgotten how we rebuilt their shattered nation after World War II and have now allied themselves with former enemies.

The forgotten lessons of World War II

Who could have predicted after WWII that France, Germany and Russia would line up on the same side against the United States over a blood-thirsty dictator like Hussein?
I guess it just proves that money is thicker than loyalty, particularly in oil-well diplomacy. The saddest point to me is that Saddam Hussein is not worth even one American life. But if we don't step up and take him down now, we're walking down the same road we found ourselves on Dec. 6, 1941. Up until then, the war in Europe was somebody else's war.
Adolph Hitler had taken Austria, then Poland, then France, and then the rest of western Europe. England hung by a thread as the last hold-out of democracy on the continent.
Japan was threatening the rest of the world, but still the U.S. stayed on the sidelines.
Then a day later came the attack on Pearl Harbor, and everything changed for our nation.
Everything changed for us again on 9-11. We can't stay on the sidelines as we did for too long as the global threat of WWII grew. The cost of waiting is far greater than taking action.