"Certainly. There were thousands of mass graves. I mean, do you want these people to nuke us?"
Tom Newman,
2900 block S. Smedley Street
"I think the reasons were shallow. They went in under false pretenses and still found nothing, no weapons. What, we can’t find bin Laden so let’s see if we can find Saddam? And still, we can’t find anything."
Cennie Laws,
1900 block Carpenter Street
"Absolutely. Look at the lives the people were living. The fear they were living in — no one should have to live like that. [Saddam Hussein] was a maniac."
Ralph Napoli,
2200 block S. 17th Street
"I don’t think it should have been handled that way. We went in to find weapons of mass destruction and still haven’t found any."
James Hudson,
3600 block Wharton Street
"I feel it was, but I think that [President Bush’s] father should have taken care of this in the first war."
Alexandra Roman,
1700 block W. Passyunk Avenue
"I don’t know if the reasons were good, but they had to do it. They did the right thing — something had to be done over there."
Don Sherry,
3200 block S. 17th Street
