[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The strategic reason for crushing Saddam was to reverse the tide of global terror that incubated in the Middle East.

Is our pre-emptive policy working? Was the message sent by ousting the Baathists as well as the Taliban worth the cost?

Set aside the tens of thousands of lives saved each year by ending Saddam's sustained murder of Iraqi Shia and Kurds, which is of little concern to human rights inactivists. Consider only self-defense: the practical impact of U.S. action on the spread of dangerous weaponry in anti-democratic hands.

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William Safire's editorial follows a string of year-end editorials with a common (common sense) theme: the war in Iraq is ~ and was ~ just.

Walter Cronkite and Jane Fonda are saddened.
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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Best statement yet , of what the Bush Doctrine has done for us and the world !

[blackie]

Pre-emptive U.S. policy on terror may be working ~ Bump!

The democrats are sad ~ very sad!