[Alberta's Child]

Having found neither weapons of mass destruction nor a link to 9-11, the White House has retreated into its fallback position. It now defends Operation Iraqi Freedom as a necessary war to rid the Middle East of a brutal dictatorship and replace it with a democracy.

Give Pat credit on this one. I predicted this would be the case even before the war began, based only on my conversations with people with family contacts in the Middle East. Every one of these people indicated that they were in favor of the war, and for no other reason than that "Saddam Hussein has to be removed from power."

In fact, I should buy a beer for the one fellow who pointed out months ago that the U.S. would find itself with no friends either inside Iraq or among its neighbors -- "Once the job is done and Saddam Hussein is gone, those people will want to throw the Americans out right after him."

[onedoug]

So?

Saddam was demonstrably linked to funding suicide bombers in Israel, and too many Americans were killed in those attacks, alone.

That, among myriad other reasons, was always enough for me to want to take out that psycho-sexual maniac and his depraved family and regime.

Gee, we're alone.

GOOD!