[GladesGuru]

Like so much that emanates from Harvard, this has serious faulty premises. For example "And the purpose for which our current war was begun--capturing Saddam Hussein's supposed stash of WMDs-- toppling Saddam and seizing his chemical and biological weapons probably wasn't worth the sacrifice of 2,000-plus American lives (as long as nuclear weapons weren't in the picture). ,"

Ah, but the fact is that Saddam Hussein had both sophisticated nerve gas and biological weapons. Thus the author's premise that only nukes are a real WMD borders on the delusional.

Still, parts of the article were very well done.

[Txsleuth]

Your point is a good one...and I would also argue that Bush himself wasn't intending this to be a "little war" that just got rid of Saddam and weapons..

He had a vision and purpose for changing the political climate in the Middle East from the beginning...he isn't as dumb as the dems think...and he knows how necessary it is to change Iraq to an allied democratic nation for the future of well, the future.

[MHGinTN]

Saddam also had more than two tons of enriched uranium, the bom making kind of uranium. And don't even get me started on Salman Pak, the terrorist training camp 25 kliks from downtown Baghdad!