Titus wrote:"So, you're saying we should only fight wars that take a few months and enemies who don't fight back?"
...Listen very carefully: I'm saying we should only fight wars if our national security or the national security of an allie is threatened, or our way of life is threatened.
None of which Iraq threatened.[/color]
This statement is perfectly, almost magically wrong. The reason for invading Iraq was a belief that the probability that they were concealing WMD was high. Had they been concealing WMD, this would have posed a collosal threat to the US, since the use of even one single WMD could result in a huge number of deaths, in some cases as many as a million.
I suppose I should take the time to cut off your predictable response that Iraq had no WMD at the time of invasion. The only relevant question is what the likelihood was at the moment of invasion that they had WMD, based on our best information, and the history. You could argue that we shouldn't have believed that Iraq was likely concealing WMD, but the idea that WMD in the hands of Saddam Hussein would not be a national security issue is ludicrous.