>>I know that the people who attacked us on 9/11 were all arab Muslim extremists. That appears to be a fact that you are unwilling or unable to admit. ...why, I have no idea.

I don't have any problem acknowledging that the attacks of 9/11 were committed by Arab Muslim extremists. . . What I refuse to do is take that next step which you do which is to assume that from that fact you can conclude that:
1: All Arabs are terrorsits
2: All Muslims are terrorists
3: Arabs or Muslims are more likely to be terrorists than other ethnicities or religions
or
4: Invading Iraq will reduce terrorism

>>We need to remove the tyrant that rules that country, disarm him, end a regime that has shown a willingness to use WMD's on its own people, a regime that has no problem with torturing children in front of their parents.

Why Iraq? Why not any number of other nations which commit similar human rights abuses. How can you use this argument to justify invading Iraq and not China? Hondoras? Turkey? Guatemala?