In post 56, you want to compare kosovo to iraq and how liberal rhetoric is comparable to conservative rhetoric.
So why did we go to kosovo ? Why did we go to iraq ?
In kosovo, we were told that there was mass graves and ethnic cleansing and this war could spread to Europe like WWI did. The reality is there was no mass graves, war was not going to spread to Europe and yes albanians were being put on trains and shipped out of the country.
In Iraq, Hussein possessed WMD at one time and used them against his own people and was working on a nuclear program at one time. The UN inspectors destroyed most of this stuff. Then in 1998, Hussein kicked the inspectors out and could have restarted his WMD program at anytime. Further, he also had enough oil money to keep him or his sons in power and WMD programs going. Hussein was bankrolling the suicide bombers in Israel. Hussein tried to kill a US president. Further, there are mass graves in Iraq. Most importantly, Iraq is post 9-11 while kosovo is pre 9-11. Preemption was not an acceptable policy in 1998 while it is acceptable post 9-11. Exactly what we were trying to preempt in kosovo still escapes me anyway.