[browardchad]

This war is about disarming a madman who in fact does have relationships with terrorists and in fact does have WMD. End of story. People can play up the "liberate Iraq" all they want. If in the end of the day they are liberated great but I really dont care so long as they dont have WMD.

This is, unfortunately, the naked truth. If we expect gratitude from the Arab or Muslim world, we'll be waiting a long, long time. Just saw the Iraqis on TV parading a dead body in the streets of Baghdad. The only difference between this barbaric ritual as enacted by the Palestinians is that the Iraqis seemed to have a casket (and it's anyone's guess what was in it.)

Time to be selfish and toughminded: precious young American lives are being sacrificed to protect America, first and foremost.

By the way, I heard on Fox this morning that they've restored 40% of the water supply in Basra, and I've read elsewhere that Saddam's minions were responsible for turning off the spigot farther up the line.

[Prysson]

Wouldnt surprise me at all. We arent in the business of kiling civilians and everyone who is honest about it knows that. I dont mean to convey the wrong impression..that somehow I am careless about the loss of innocent lives. But wars sometimes have to be fought and when they do you cant paralyze yourselves over the cost. Otherwise we might as well all roll over and start shopping for prayer rugs.