[Tolik]

victorhanson.com is a MUST EXCERPT website. Follow the link to the complete transcript

The article in questions was posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477441/posts

[kellynla]

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[Tolik]

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[Jeff Blogworthy]

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[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Read the casus belli that the Senate passed. It included violations of the 1991 armistice accords, genocide, assassination attempts on a former U.S. president, links with terrorism (their writ not mine), etc.

US Senate? Sheesh.

[ex-snook]

Hey he didn't mention the most important reason to stay in Iraq. Our being in Iraq makes us closer to invade China when that real war starts. Now what remains is to invade Iran and we will control the whole southern front. Plus our being in Korea makes China fight a two front war. Bring on those car bombs. Right?

[metesky]

The Professor told at least three of his detractors that they obviously hadn't even read what he had written. Very good.

[Yardstick]

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I think I see a typo:

"And read too the critique at the time: in October 2002 it [wasn't] that Saddam did not have WMD (even the Left believed that)"

[John Lenin]

First, we have radically cut relations back, most notably by withdrawing all 10,000 troops (something the Clinton administration never did). We are doing things already that are driving them crazy, from promoting democracy next door in Iraq, to encouraging reform in the other Gulf states, to pulling away from the Mubarak autocracy in Egypt, the center of Arab nationalism, to monitoring and dismantling Wahhabi charities, and finally to restricting visas and entry into the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. So the old corrupt calculus is ending. Can we do more? Maybe if we get an energy policy of conservation and more exploration, but even then we learn that China, India, and Europe have no scruples, far less than ours, in cozying up to the largest reserves of oil in the world.

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