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Here you go, Tom, from a forty-five year old, old, conservative:
http://www.illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=5010

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Opposers of the defense of freedom have called Operation Iraqi Freedom an unjust, "preemptive attack."

--We say this is a resumption of the suspended assault on Iraq which began with their invasion of Kuwait on their way to Saudi Arabia twelve years ago. Imagine the millions of lives saved, had we driven back Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland, and then after repeated violations of the terms of his surrender, we then continued to liberate Germany from the Nazis in the Thirties. How many millions of lives would have been saved?

Now imagine the terrible evil of Saddam Hussein and the B'ath Socialist Party with weapons of mass destruction including nuclear missiles, holding the entire Middle East hostage and taking control. We Americans have learned from history. Never again, can we allow such an evil empire to form and dominate a region.