[Destro]

The paleo-cons don't think that and the paleo-cons can fire back the reverse that hostility to America would not evaporate even if [democratic Iraq appears] overnight in a puff of neo-con pixie dust.

[Mr. Mojo]

hostility to America would not evaporate even if [democratic Iraq appears] overnight in a puff of neo-con pixie dust.

Hostility to the U.S. might not evaporate in such an instance, but a brutal dictator who has stockpiled (and used) massive amounts of WMD and has both harbored and collaborated with terrorist organizations bent on the complete destruction of the United States would be in the ash-heap of history. Is this not a good thing? I submit that it is, and most of America (and almost ALL coservative Americans) agree with me.

[JasonC]

We don't expect, or even particularly want, hostility to the US to disappear. Security is not a popularity contest. We want certain particularly well armed and active hostiles to die. A perfectly rational and achievable aim, and one very much in our national interest.