[Austin Willard Wright]

I rarely have anything good to say about Dubya but, if true, he is right on this one. An invasion of Iraq would like to hopeless quagmire and draw us even further into that most screwed up part of the world. As it is, we have already been drawn (contrary to the wishful thinking of freepers) into a protracted guerrilla war in Afghanistan and an endless, and futile, campaign of nation building (shades of Haiti). Such is the end result of the conservative social engineering project to police every knook and cranny of the planet.

BTW, "nonstatist" it would also dramatically increase the power of the state. Have you forgotten that "war is the health of the state?"

[Nonstatist]

BTW, "nonstatist" it would also dramatically increase the power of the state.

I am not interested in "nation building" I am interested in effecting a change in regime, in the interest of securing our protection from unalloyed use of weapons of mass destruction. I have no stake in perpetual governorship of Afghanistan, Bosnia, or elsewhere.

I just don't believe the bilge that says Hussein is not threat to us, does not collude with terrorists, does not trade in terrorist weaponry, does not live outside the reining rules of civilized behavior. If theres one reason to have a state at all, it is to protect and secure the liberty of its citizenry.