How to Support the War despite Duelfer

Willing to cede the Duelfer report's finding that Saddam did not have WMDs, John Hawkins has "11 Reasons Why We Were Right to Hit Iraq." He explains each one and includes relevant links, but here are the bullet points just to give you an idea:

1) Saddam was one of the world's foremost sponsors of terrorism...

2) As George Bush has said many times, the war on terrorism CANNOT BE WON without stopping rogue nations from supporting terrorist groups...

3) As Vladimir Putin revealed, Russian intelligence believed Saddam was planning terrorist attacks inside the US...

4) One of the likely reasons that we've seen such a decrease in Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel is because Saddam is no longer around to pay the families of suicide bombers $25,000 per homicide bombing...

5) While Iraq has not been implicated in the 9/11 attacks, Iraq has had ties to Al-Qaeda for more than a decade...

6) Because we're fighting in the Middle-East, terrorists who might otherwise be coming to America to kill civilians are coming into Iraq to fight our troops...

7) Even though the Deulfer report has revealed there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, it also says that they were waiting for an opportunity to produce them...

8) Iraq was not completely free of WMDs. "10 or 12 sarin and mustard gas shells" have been found...

9) Because we invaded Iraq, nations like Iran and North Korea cannot blithely disregard the idea that we will attack them and they'll be much more likely to make a deal with us, just as Libya did. As Mark Steyn said, "You don't invade Iraq in order to invade everywhere else, you invade Iraq so you don't have to invade everywhere else."

10) Obviously Saddam had such poor judgement that it was dangerous to allow him to stay in power...

11) By taking out Saddam Hussein, we freed more than 25 million Iraqis and are helping them towards Democracy. This is no small thing given that Democrats justified military intervention in places like Bosnia and Haiti SOLELY on humanitarian grounds.