[Captain Kirk]

Cut off one head, and another will spring up. The Pollyanna Wilsonians in Washington who got our troops in this mess should go back to their classrooms.

[Stultis]

Well, I see it differently. The way I see it we've been in this mess for 12 years, and it's about damn time we went ahead on in and cleared it up. I suspect the costs of not having done so have been far more than the tens of billions of dollars spent each year on the "containment" of Saddam, but also include having emboldened our enemies, preserved their finances, and stifled just about any possible progress toward peace or greater civility in the region.