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"I'm am a proud republican and bush voter... Let me correct your sentence for ya.: >"I am a proud Republican, and a President Bush supporter." "Does this suggestion suddenly make me a peacenik?" NO. Please forgive those of us who are skeptical of newbies who come in and make statements like you just did. Usually they are disruptive trolls. So the response you got was a natural one.

Thanks FBD.

I appreciate the editorial work too.

From that perspective I guess it makes more sense (the newbie thing etc.). I should have prefaced my post with saying that I support the President.

With regard to the outside/inside iraq issue, I imagine in all probability you are right. It's more that I'm becoming very concerned by our apparent inability or at least slowness in getting the foreign arabs out of iraq or at least under control. They are in there stirring up the situation; and these are guys who imo are much more dangerous than the ex-saddamites - they are religious fanatics and al-qaeda types. These are the guys who really want to wipe us out (not just in iraq like the baathists, but everywhere).

I've always thought that the WMD, violation-of-UN-resolutions reason was a bit of a waste of time; the only good reason imo to go in was to boot out Saddam and bring democracy to a brutalized people. There was so much harping on about it on both side of the 'debate' that I think we sometimes missed the real issue. So I suppose that probably influences my skepticism of when we see some chemicals or whatever and turn around and say "see we were right" - finding WMDs or not doesn't change the fact that we did the right thing in removing an evil tyrant. [not that I'm saying this is your point, but just as an overall comment to some of the other things I've seen written].

Anyway... thanks for the comment and advice.