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But it is NOT making an example of Saddam, it in ensuring he cannot harm the United States of America or its citizens directly (through acquiring weapons of mass destruction) or indirectly (through funding terrorist groups).

Saddam Hussein is merely item two on the agenda, behind dealing with al-Qaeda. There is, in my opinion, a fair deal of circumstantial evidence point to an Iraqi role in 9/11. There are meetings we DO know about between Iraq and al-Qaeda, meetings that the Secretary of State mentioned to the UN last month.

To call what Ron Paul and others advocate appeasement is not silliness, it is the truth. It hurts, but that is what it is. The only rational course of action is victory. That has been clear since 9:04 AM on September 11, 2001, once it was clear that what was happening at the World Trade Center was an unprovoked attack on the United States of America.

What is your definition of appeasement?

No Western intelligence agency has been able to link al-Qaeda to Iraq in regards to 9/11 or anything else. If you are privy to this information, please provide your President with it post haste so he can stop relying on Wilsonian arguments to justify American involvement. Circumstantial evidence, perhaps, exists, but Christians do not go around killing people based on such things.

There are two position as far as I can tell between the conservatives and the liberals:

The Conservative position
1) Too much intervention led to terrorism.

The Wilsonian liberals position
2) Not enough intervention (we should have taken out Saddam in 1991) led to terrorism.

Both are, I guess, defensible positions, but one is conservative the other liberal, and yes it does matter. Since you have repudiated the only Conservative argument for war with Iraq, perhaps you would be more at home at the New Republic website?

I tend to take the libertarian position that 9/11 was a result of the CIA not taking care of loose ends after the Cold War and a grossly incompetent trillion dollar central intelligence apparatus (not one high level resignation after 9/11) coupled with a disarmed public.