[Radix]

I would not refer to the war in Iraq as a "police" action. We made a preemptive strike against a rogue nation. That nation demonstrated that it had possesion of chemical weapons, has used, and likely would again use those weapons possibly against Americans. You can buy the media spin if you choose, but it is just spin.

It may seem like a police action now, but that is hardly the same thing as the United States getting involved in Kosovo, or Liberia or other such places where we have no recognized strategic national interest.

Your comment does not specifically say it, but I infer that you are accusing the current administration of being an "enemy within." I could not disagree more. The enemy within is no longer in office, unless you refer to the current jr Senator from New York.

[Dr. Marten]

I love this quote by Dennis Miller:

"Most people are thinking they want to
be protected. It's fine to talk about health
care, but I think most people are thinking
they don't want to have to use their health
care to get stitched up after they're blown
up in a bomb blast by a nut case. They want
the nut case killed before that happens. So,
in that case, it becomes pre-emtpive health
care. As I get older it seems unsafe to me to
be anything but a conservative."

[Bonaparte]

"We made a preemptive strike against a rogue nation."

There is no doubt that, in sacking Saddam's regime, we spared ourselves and the world much pain. But I see what we did in far simpler terms --

Saddam persisted in gross violation of the terms of cease-fire he signed with us. Accordingly, he forfeited the privilege of continuing in power. We did the same thing to him that should have been done to Hitler when he violated the terms of Versailles by occupying the Rhineland.