[NutCrackerBoy]

Among other things, this piece succinctly summarizes some of the counter-arguments routinely needed against moonbats.

[kabar]

The real question that should be asked of those who were/are against the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam: How could we possibly have allowed Saddam to remain in power after 9/11 and fought the WOT?

[hawkaw]

Bush—despite his domestic failures ...

Unemployment at 4.7 % is not a failure .....

[okiedog]

General Zinny is an honorable American. If we used this gibberish as a criteria for invading other countries we would occupy Israel for its refusal to comply with U.N. resolutions or to disclose its nuclear arsenal. The problem with neo-cons is not their intellectual arguments against foreign enemies like Saddam Hussein, its their arrogant denunciations of patriots like General Zinny who disagree. Kids have taken over America's foreign policy and I am pleased there are still a few men, like Zinny to remind us.

[JacksonCalhoun]

If only the White House were as succinct in their arguments. Unfortnately, Gen Zinni's assertions are considered the gospel truth by the MSM and the Dems, retreads and wannabes on the right such as Pat Buchannan, and probably half of the Republican party at this point.

[jazusamo]

and firing on American aircraft patrolling no-fly zones.

General Zinni was supposedly a well respected officer. I don't believe the American pilots that were being fired on in the no-fly zone by Iraq would consider Zinni's assertion that containment was working to be credible.
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[Blue State Insurgent]

How many Arab children had to starve to death under UN Sanctions in order to 'contain' Saddam? What was the number George Galloway told congress? 2 million?

Gee, I wonder what motivated the 9-11 hijackers?

[Argus]

Hollywood mouth-breathers

Apt phrase.

[NutCrackerBoy]

History will render its judgment in due time. What remains, meanwhile, is the incessant drumbeat of defeatism. The political Left, both in America and in Europe, has become a mindless, wandering rabble, a coalition of 1960s retreads and wannabes held together by a congealed psychic-mucous of rage, paranoia, and self-righteousness. They are desperate for Bush to fail in Iraq. Their irrational hatred for him resembles not so much the Right’s substantial hatred of Bill Clinton but the South’s pathological hatred of Lincoln—who, for the record, oversaw prisoner abuses far worse than those at Abu Ghraib, and who took liberties with the Constitution far beyond warrantless wiretapping.

The judgment of history on Bush-haters will not be kind. -Mark Goldblatt

Heh heh. He said congealed psychic-mucous.

[driftless]

One inescapable fact remains: Hussein had a working arrangement with Al-Qaeda that together with his support of other Islamo-fascist terrorists made him an ANTI-AMERICAN ISLAMO-FASCIST TERRORIST!!! Period. Which made his removal necessary. End of argument.

[colorado tanker]

The article leaves out an important point. The status quo was untenable. Thanks to oil-for-food money being spread around, there was no support for maintaining sanctions except for America and Britain. The Security Council was months away from lifting sanctions and inspectors, which would have left Saddam free to go back into production of WMD's and resurrect his nuclear program, free from interference.