[fortheDeclaration]

Hussein's government wasn't a threat to us. It wasn't militant Islamist. It was secular. There were no WMDs. And Saddam Hussein had no connection whatsoever to Sept. 11.

He was a threat to the region, which is of vital interest to us.

He was firing on our planes which were in place to enforce the peace treaty which was ignoring.

He had terrorist camps in his nation.

Had Israel not knocked out his nuke program he would have had nuclear weapons.

Getting rid of Saddam was long overdue, it should have been done after the Gulf War.

The problem was not that we attacked Iraq, but that Bush has flinched and not attacked Iran as well.

[Red Phillips]

You big-government interventionists kill me. We should not have gone to war in the first Gulf War. The defense of Kuwait is entirely the responsibility of Kuwait. Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the use of the US military to fight on behalf of Kuwait or anyone else. The purpose of the US military is solely the defense of America. So we should not have been enforcing the UN no-fly zone in the first place. Conservative should want us out of the UN.

You interventionists are whistling past the graveyard. No one except the already firmly committed still buys your rhetoric. Once firm interventionists are jumping ship or backtracking. (Sullivan, Kincaid, etc.) Those who have been anti-intervention but were afraid to speak up are now emboldened. Rightist anti-war, non-interventionist have always been out there but now we have a voice to rally around, Ron Paul. Paleos and libertarians alike are joining forces against the big-government Wilsonian interventionists who pretend to be conservatives. (Ha.)

Just watch the Internet for proof. At conservative sites that post pro-Rudy content and disparage Paul the comments usually run heavily in Paul’s favor. They used to could safely get away with posting pro-war boilerplate. Now they can’t. Principled non-interventionists and Paul supporters are everywhere.

Just look at FR. I used to be about the only person I ever saw posting anti-intervention comments here. Now I am not. Big-government Wilsonian interventionists, your reign is coming to an end.