Wow. This thread is like the energizer bunny, except with red/white/blue ears and beating on a war drum.
Not gonna spend a lot of time on this cause pretty much the same things continue to be debated. I'll just speak on the threat of Iraq, which from my understanding was the reason for pre-emptively striking. How much of a threat? Blix has said that with inspectors destroying weapons and with US watchdogs/spies (CIA, FBI, NSA) already in place it would have been very unlikely and virtually impossible for Iraq to be able to use wmds or provide them to extremists who would then use them against the US for many reasons most of which are obvious. I know everyone hates Blix and the weapon inspectors but ironically we're hiring them away from the UN to do the job they were already doing. Go figure.
Even though we've won or on our way to decisively winning the war in Iraq this probably won't have much of a desired effect in the war on terrorism. Mainly because terrorists become terrorist out of hate, which the rest of the world feels like the US continues to provoke. We should include in our policy a way of promoting reconciliation and learning of the nature of the hate, I think this will go a long way in curbing the future of the hate that causes terrorism. In addition terrorist don't need to be state sponsored and they can get wmds from a number of less closely watched and monitored places than Iraq. Terrorist don't need wmds to be destructive or be a threat to US or our interest. We found that out from the MD/VA snipers. Also if you've forgotten we continue to face a serious threat from domestic terrorist with weapons that can be viewed as wmds as we found out with the anthrax/mail scares. And that was very small scale.
Anyways I can say I'm glad that we didn't lose as many troops as some analysts have projected and that we've recovered our POWs. We'll see how our colonization, I mean rebuilding of Iraq goes.
Alright who's next to take a wack...
Jato if you respond to this post please keep it under 500 words. And oh yeah...you're welcome on the new sig moniker.
