1) I am NOT a broken glass Republican.
2) I DID NOT make the argument that Iraq and 9-11 were linked explicitly.
3) The War on Iraq was a just war. No sideshow. Look at a map and see where Iran and Syria and Afghanistan are wrt each other.
4) Remind yourself that we were kicked out of Saudi Arabia. Where were we gonna have a base?
I didn't say you were. I said the msg implicit in post #2 is well worn among that crowd.
2) I DID NOT make the argument that Iraq and 9-11 were linked explicitly.
No, but post #2 does.
3) The War on Iraq was a just war. No sideshow. Look at a map and see where Iran and Syria and Afghanistan are wrt each other.
I can see that. While that may be strategically desirabe, it never came up as a ratoinale for war. the war was marketed as an urgently needed intervention to keep suitcase nukes and anthrax drones and other horrors from reaching our shores. Turned out to be buncombe, which is when the whole wilsoniam freedom fest took over.