I am up finally and unpolished...hehe.

Thanks very much for the opportunity to make an ass out of myself. Your buying my meds.

Thanks

Pierre Legrand

A very nice blog entry to summarize where we are and where we might not be had the Bush Doctrine not been imposed. Sprinkling it with the brilliance of Krauthammer doesn't hurt either. You have demonstrably stated the obvious and I defy your challengers to deny your conclusions. I'll look forward to scanning the "peer-reviewed" material for, up until know, I've never found a cogent argument for not doing what has been done.

Just to clarify, I am referring to Willisms "Iraq - what might have been" post. That's not to say Jay Tea's contributions should go unrecognized... it's just that, well, we don't want him getting too big for his britches with excessive back-slaps and kudos.

Thanks, AnonymousDrivel. I just scribbled that out last night.

You can't argue with the facts!...Thanks!

Zsa Zsa:

Oh yes you can. Liberals in general and Senator Tonsafun (D-Chivas) do it all the time.

Pierre:

I don't know if it's something I'm (not?) doing, but when I tried to comment on your piece, which scared the crap out of me, I couldn't get comments to work.

Pretty interesting post.

I had never considered that question before:

After Afghanistan, what next?

Unless you take the position that the WoT was over, which is in essence to say there is no WoT, then there is the question of which group to decimate next. As you point out, Saddam was a big thorn in the side, a clear supporter of terrorism, and at the time, thought to be able to supply bio/chem/nuclear weapons and/or skills to terrorists. He was also the main cause of 9/11 indirectly given that Us troops in Saudi caused 9/11 in a big way, and they were there because of Saddam.

I often think the left chooses not to see the bigger picture, and therefore try to impress upon the world that there isn't one and this is all some giddy adventure for a cowboy president who's doing it to line Halliburtons coffers, and get some cheap oil.

Fact is, there is plenty to debate on the subject if they were open to it. However, while many on the right debate the real reasons for invading Iraq, they seemed convinced that the only answer is theirs and their mission is to try and ram their worldview down everyones throats. Intellectuals my ass.

Hi,

What sort of error did you recieve when you attempted to comment? Keeping in mind that I know as much about the workings of Haloscan commenting as I know of Paris Hiltons dinner tonight...Hmm maybe thats not the best analogy. hehe.

Thanks for the compliment...it was intended to scare people. Sorry for the roughness of the writing...my skills slack behind my ideas.

Pierre Legrand

Pierre:

Actually, when I clicked on comments, nothing happened. (other than that little box thingy forming around the word "Comments") The first time I tried, there was already one comment; when I tried again later, there were two. Somebody managed to get through, so it may be me or my computer.

Sorry it took so long to reply; I've been bouncing around from site to site tonight.

And trust me, compared to some of the drivel I've posted in comments, you're the next Hemingway.

Pierre:

And since it finally dawned on me to try, I've discovered that I can't access any of the comments sections on your site. I can, however, access comments sections on other sites that use Haloscan.

Ask Will...at WILLisms.com he uaually has the answers to questions about comment stuff!...

Tony Blair has already read out this alternative history:

But for others, opposed to this course, it means -- let us be clear -- that the Iraqi people, whose only true hope of liberation lies in the removal of Saddam, for them, the darkness will close back over them again; and he will be free to take his revenge upon those he must know wish him gone.
And if this house now demands that at this moment, faced with this threat from this regime, that British troops are pulled back, that we turn away at the point of reckoning, and that is what it means - what then?
What will Saddam feel? Strengthened beyond measure. What will the other states who tyrannise their people, the terrorists who threaten our existence, what will they take from that? That the will confronting them is decaying and feeble.
Who will celebrate and who will weep?