[Valin]

Why?

[Cacophonous]

I didn't think (just my opinion, unpopular it may be) that Hussein posed a threat to the US. I figured he had WMD, but was not a threat to us unless we attacked him. Thankfully I was wrong there, but then I had to wonder if he was ever a threat to us at all (I still think we'll find WMD, btw). His connection to 9-11 was not established.

I think it's a bad idea to fight altruistic wars of liberation; no great nation in history EVER fought that way and survived. If we had gone in for oil (or some other form of material gain), I would have loved it. But we were constantly told that's not the case, and I was called unAmerican for suggesting it.

I also felt we were setting ourselves up for another long-term, no-end-in-sight occupation, in a region where the people didn't want us, and where the cultural divide was immense. So far, I'm right on that one. I felt that after the initial wave of celebration, we would be in for a long, drawn out guerilla conflict.

In short, it was Bill Clinton in the Balkans all over again, and I opposed it for the same reasons.