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To an outsider who was looking to see if really maybe possibly, you were a conservative who actually supported the war, your posts have taken a strange turn for the worse.

On multiple posts you have created this false dichotomy based on a scenario you invented, not I, regarding debt financing of wars. On several posts I corrected you but since you are out of ideas you still go back to it.

If you really think Saddam is (was) a greater threat than say a China, great, but I will think you are limited in your understanding of foreign policy--which is neither a conservative or liberal position on the face of it since we are just talking about ranking threats.

Debt financing leads to upheavals and foreign intrigue/national security issues.

Debt financing of the Revolution led to problems like Shay's Rebellion and the power of the central government whom Hamilton contrived with Jefferson to inherit state debt which at least so far has insured the supremacy of DC over the sovereign states which was starkly against the ideals of the founding of the country and the natural conservative instincts of the people to favor home rule.

That you think conservatives apply your cute little Y/N scenario is a testament to how little you understand your historical nation.

On multiple posts you have created this false dichotomy based on a scenario you invented, not I, regarding debt financing of wars.

I didn't bring up "debt financing", you did. I'm happy to drop the subject.

If you really think Saddam is (was) a greater threat than say a China,

Never said that, so rest of your sentence is spurious.

Debt financing leads to upheavals and foreign intrigue/national security issues.

Ok. Not arguing.

Debt financing of the Revolution led to problems like Shay's Rebellion and the power of the central government whom Hamilton contrived with Jefferson to inherit state debt which at least so far has insured the supremacy of DC over the sovereign states which was starkly against the ideals of the founding of the country and the natural conservative instincts of the people to favor home rule.

So if I may summarize and put 2 and 2 together, you think the American Revolution - as it was waged (i.e. not in theory) - was a bad idea that should have been opposed by any 18th-century-conservative-equivalent folks, correct?

That you think conservatives apply your cute little Y/N scenario

??? I don't "think conservatives apply my little Y/N scenario", that doesn't even make sense. I was drawing a natural inference from the content of your posts. You're here to say, mostly, that the war in Iraq should be opposed by conservatives "because it's debt-financed". I applied that to a certain other war and drew the only logical conclusion. What "conservatives apply" has got nothing to do with anything.

I happen to think yours is a dumb reason to oppose this or any other war. You're welcome to your opinions of course (you can have them because I sure as heck don't want them). I'm happy just to say that your arrogant pretense to be the sole arbiter of what is conservative and what isn't, is a delusion, and leave it at that. If that delusion comforts you then by all means continue to wallow in it, be my guest. Just don't expect the rest of us to bow down before your self-appointed claim to authority.