[D-fendr]

thinking, conservatively, about issues of life and death, lives will be saved, fewer deaths resulting, by removing the threat of Iraq.

I can't think of a more harmful way to handle the issue than to wait or avoid the painful necessity of defending liberty.

[MadIvan]

I can't think of a more harmful way to handle the issue than to wait or avoid the painful necessity of defending liberty.

This is what makes me boil with rage. Appeasement, doing nothing has such a dreadful history and people are being like stubborn children in refusing to learn for it. Saddam Hussein is a threat. Some people need to bloody well grow up and face the responsibility of dealing with it, maturely, sensibly and with a minimum of bloodshed - i.e., get rid of him now before he actually does get the bomb.

Regards, Ivan

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

I can't think of a more harmful way to handle the issue than to wait or avoid the painful necessity of defending liberty.

Indeed. I'm reminded of an important concept we'd do well to remember (from Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's successor, of all unlikely sources):

"Peace cannot be attained by begging. War cannot be avoided by yielding."

[The Duke]

I can't think of a more harmful way to handle the issue than to wait or avoid the painful necessity of defending liberty.

My God, thing of the senseless rhetoric your spouting here while on the brink of war! "Defending liberty"...do you honestly think Saddam thinks about or cares about your "liberty"? Do you think that 9/11 was an "attack on freedom"?

Gimme a break!

I'm a hard nosed conservative. But this is about "Haliburten" having oil to pump, plain and simple. Saddam's one tenth the threat of Fidel Castro, and you don't see us forcing a "regime change" in Cuba.

Conservatives are starting to sound like Democrats, if not lemmings!