We can't hide from the world, militarily or economically. There's no acceptable "fortress" strategy. We must retool our national security model, and embrace the new opportunities and challenges that is the reality of a competitive, international economic financial, labor and sales market.
Pat and his followers can't or won't accept the new paradigm. It's our adventurism and pro-Israeli foreign policy, and it's those immigrants and lowball wage foreigners. Fear, loathing and isolation doesn't get the job done in 2003. We compete for our lives and livelihoods in our innovative, expert and relentless American way. That's a working assumption going forward, not an option.
Those who want to pursue indefensible options of diplomatic and military isolationism and economic protectionism are already politically and ideologically extinct. No matter how loud they bray.
I think it is reasonable to conclude that the Iraqi childrens prison with 300 kids aged 5 and up was a WMD. Those kids were put in a gulag because the Baath party wanted to destruct their families due to suspected disloyalty to Saddam. That one liberation point alone justifies the removal of these thugs. WMDs to me come in many variations.