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>>Paul, as I suspected I have looked through your posting history and it is apparent that you've been accused of the same by other posters here. Maybe YOU should look inward...<<

As a Christian and an American, it's part of my job to look inward. I do it imperfectly though.

There is a basic flaw in the logic we used to justify the invasion.. we based it on UN rules and international law when the UN didn;t support the action.... it look really bad to do something in someone else's name while they are in the middle of disavowing your effort.

I believe a way could have been found to remove Saddam without putting us in this wretched situation.

Fortunately, the war was well executed and we are doing well at establishing democracy in Iraq so I am hopeful it will still work out and I absolutely support our troops and want them to win and to be safe.

But I'm not going to pretend that we went to war properly - if we delude ourselves on that point we might do it again.

I hope we will learn a lesson - if we have to fight in North Korea or Iran, I hope we will will either do on our own based on US interests being threatened or not do it at all... this going to the UN, getting turned down and doing it anyway in their name is harmful.