[churchillbuff]

If Merle sees our struggle against Muslim terrorists as being an impediment to pursuing a conservative agenda at home then he really is confused.""

No, the war in Iraq is costing about $1 billion a week.. THat's definitely an impediment to conservative agenda such as balancing the budget and cutting taxes, or even extending the "temporary" tax cuts. Also, the war in Iraq isn't part of a war against "Muslim terrorists," - or at least didn't start that way. Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed. The chief of the Muslim terrorists is Osama, and we seem to have lost interest in him.

[Torie]

Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed.

Gee, the right man, in the right place, at the right time.

Twisted values lead to twisted thinking.

[Petronski]

Also, the war in Iraq isn't part of a war against "Muslim terrorists," - or at least didn't start that way. Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed. The chief of the Muslim terrorists is Osama, and we seem to have lost interest in him.

You swallowed DUmmism whole, and now you're barfing it back up.

Get help.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed.

That's right. And he didn't support terrorists, except for the ones he did. And he didn't train anyone at Salman Pak in the art of airplane hijacking. And he didn't pay "Palestinians" who killed innocent Jews. He didn't try to kill Bush I. Didn't shelter any of the terrorists who tried to destroy the WTC in 1993.

Nope, poor Saddam was just an innocent guy that we decided to pick on for no reason at all. Are you going to mourn when Assad falls in Syria? Or when the mullahs in Iran are finally taken out?