Even from other blogs. Some of them, anyway:
…There was no reason, no excuse, and no rationalization for that war. Not within the bounds or either security or morality. Not while many nations of the world are lead by vicious tyrants who are at least as bad as Hussain. Not while, even as we prepared to attack Iraq regardless of any U.N. “findings”, we were actually being threatened with (strongly implied) use of nuclear force against us by a nation which we knew for a fact not only has the weapons, but has a delivery system that can get those weapons within our boarders. You’ll notice that we didn’t attack them, as we didn’t attack the former U.S.S.R., and don’t attack ChinaYou want proof that we knew Iraq did not have weapons with mass destructive abilities? Here it is: We did attack them.
If, as with Korea, we knew Iraq had nuclear weapons, or any ABC devices which could damage us or our allies, we would, as with Korea, still be pursuing diplomatic channels while trying our best to not get them too pissed off at us. We’d probably be asking Iran to talk sense into them, while secretly funding their own nuclear program.…
h.p. rand