I think you have missed the point, Bill Kristol has no influence on policy in this country, We here about Richard Pearle and where is he right now?
These boogie men Pat Buchanan is so afraid of, are toothless warriors in a war that is raging in the media and has little or no effect on reality on the ground in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein used to be the strong man in the middle east and he openly bragged about supporting terrorism against us and the Jews, if Saddam wasn't an enemy that needed war waged upon him, that you have no respect for those who died in the Gulf War in 1992
One can only wonder at the respect shown to those men by those who started that war.
Those "boogie men" were, to a large degree, responsible for funneling bad/overblown intel to the President, and he made a decision to wage war based on that. They had the greatest effect of all, which was getting our troops there on the ground in the first place.
"Saddam Hussein... openly bragged about supporting terrorism against us and the Jews..."
Yes, he sent money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel. But when did he ever "openly brag" about supporting terrorism against us?
Again we go back to the point of the article. No one is arguing that Saddam was a good guy. But who was he the biggest threat to? Were we not fed bad info? Who was feeding us that bad info and why?
We were manipulated into fighting someone else's war, my friend.