[#1CTYankee]

Everone suspected Russia was behind it, didn't they get fired upon by U.S. troops during the first days of the war?

Yup.

[MARTIAL MONK]

During the run-up to the war there was an article posted here in which a Russian officer was asked his reasons for being in Iraq. I think his response was something very close to "We did not come here for brunch." I wondered at the time if that meant that they would engage Americans. Now, I think it meant something else.

One of the reasons advanced for not going to war was that it would force clandestine dispersal of WMD to other hostile states. If we prove the existence of WMD and their dispersal we validate that criticism. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

If possession of WMD justified an invasion of Iraq, would it not then compel an invasion of Syria and/or Iran? That is something we cannot do.