Which "war effort"? I'm for the war against Al Queda. I just think that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake and a diversion from the war on terror. That's not "slander," that's called honest disagreement. Tom Clancy agrees with me - that doesn't make me right (or wrong), it just shows that people can hold a position that's not your position and still be good Americans.
Pretending the WOT does not include nation states like Iraq that support terror networks is not intellectually honest.
For once, I wish you'd describe what we should have done after Afghanistan? The typical response from anti-Iraq war people is 'focus on Afghanistan' and yet even if we did get Bin Laden would that be it for you? Everything would just be solved after Afghanistan, right? Bush was supposed to just ignore Iraq and it's noncompliance with UN resolutions and his threats towards our country? Terrorism and threats such as 9/11 would supposedly stop after Afghanistan? It's a much broader problem and Bush is going about it the right way because things have got to change in the Middle East and Saddam Hussein being taken out is directly involved in the war on terrorism.
Although you are probably not a democrat read my tagline.
Also, like Churchill, we shall fight the terrorists in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender....
BTW, the terrorists were in Iraq way before and after 3/19/03. Saddam also had a nasty habit of providing millions of dollars worth of funding to those nasty beasts.