We don't care one way or another if you are convinced of the need to go to war; indeed, I assume that there is nothing which would convince you to go to war. And we can assume that there is nothing that would convince you to intervene if you saw a person getting mugged or raped in a side street. Intervention might cause more muggings and rapes, after all...namely YOURS.
Yours is the mentality of a person who has already tasted defeat and found the flavor of boots more tolerable than the feel of scraped knuckles. You believe that because you find defeat palatable, that others should, too.
The simple FACT of the matter is that we have been at war now since Iraq invaded Kuwait in the early 90s. Iraq started the war, and we opted not to finish it because the liberals whined then about how "brutal" we were to those who had raped and pillaged Kuwait, to those who had set fire to what remained of her wealth, to those who in an act of spite wasted a nation's precious resources by pumping crude into the Gulf; how terrible we were to those who hoped to foul nations' water supplies with oil before fleeing northward with their weapons and captives so as to live and fight another day against a weaker enemy. And now, after about 12 years of continuous Iraqi cease fire violations, Iraqi bribery, blackmail, threats, and stalling, all accompanied by the steady repetitious cicadalike whining of liberals that the sanctions were killing the children... we now have liberals wanting the sanctions to continue while an endless circle-jerk of inspections accomplishes exactly nothing other than to give Hussein more time to kill.
Now we are resolved to finish that which should have been finished not in the name of the UN but in the name of something higher, our country, our names, the only names that ever count. And the average Iraqi is going to be very glad to see us.
I just wish whoever this is who continues to literally beat their head up against a brick wall with these peacenick posts every morning could get it through their thick, albeit whinny skull that they are wrong and arguments like yours are right.
I especially loved this line: we now have liberals wanting the sanctions to continue while an endless circle-jerk of inspections accomplishes exactly nothing other than to give Hussein more time to kill.
LOL.....TRUER words have rarely been spoken!