[Dilbert56]

Turn it around. What price would be worth it?

• Saddam and Sons dead. Their Baathist thugs gone, hiding in Syria.
• Libya surrendering its WMD programs without another shot.
• Iran surrounded by representative governments sympathetic to the West.
• Tens of thousands of terrorists dead.
• Al Qaida humiliated. Defeated in battle. Rejected by a Sunnni Muslim population.
• A democracy in the Middle East vs. a state sponsoring terrorism.
• The image of the US as a "paper tiger" after Blackhawk Down and the USS Cole erased.
• Twenty-seven million people tasting freedom after three decades of oppression.
• Democratic reforms in Kuwait and other neighboring countries.

The price is too high? Certainly to a family that's lost a loved one. So what price would make the list above palatable. Or a bargain?

[Aria]

Very well put.

After 9/11 did we have any other choice but to answer in full force - I don’t think so.

They asked for this war - we chose to have it in a desert instead of the mountains of Afghanistan that defeated the Soviets.

When the liberals have moved on to another cause to scream about I think our strategy will be vindicated.