Let't get something straight up front, Ron.
I do NOT, and never have, claimed that this was "Israel's war".
Saddam is a malicious tyrant that needs to be taken out. Period.
IMHO, it should have been done a dozen years ago.
Nevertheless, I won't let that blind me to the complicating influence of the Israeli lobby in our foreign affairs. And I will not be browbeat into compliance by hordes of slanderous Holocaust pimps who smear anybody who dares disagree with them with the "antisemite" label. If anything, those political tactics have fully obliterated and alienated any support for Israel that I may have once had. IMHO, those who practice such tactics have adopted the spirit of Hitler and are a despicable stench on the memories of the actual Holocaust victims.
My position on the Arab/Israeli conflict is simple and straightforward: absolute strict neutrality. I don't want anything to do with an ethno-religious tribal feud that dates back for millenia. And I deeply resent anybody who attempts to draw me into it on one side or the other.
Furthermore, I am also resentful of an incompetent federal government that has for the last 30 years been totally derelict in its duty to peacefully develop our own Energy resources. IMHO, politicians on both sides of the aisle have myopicly jeopardized our National Security by maintaining our dependence on Mid-East oil, and thus continued entanglement with the Arab/Israeli feud.
Amen