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Yet I remain convinced we should be very cautious before we send troops and bombs into Iraq. It's simple to point out that Saddam Hussein is a ruthless dictator, but it's not so easy to demonstrate that he poses a threat to us. We should also remember that the congressional resolution passed immediately after September 11th, which I supported, authorized military force only against those directly responsible for the attacks- and there is no evidence whatsoever that Iraq played a role in those attacks. This leaves me with two serious concerns: first, the near-certainty that this coming war will be undeclared, and hence unconstitutional; and second, that such a war does not serve our best interests. First and foremost, we must follow the Constitution and require that the President secure a congressional declaration of war before he proceeds against Iraq...Constitutional questions aside, we have to ask ourselves quite simply whether it serves any national interest to invade Iraq.

Remember, Iraq has not initiated aggression against us. We, on the other hand, have bombed them, taunted them by flying military jets in their airspace, and starved them with economic sanctions- all for more than a decade. We haven't done these things out of humanitarian concern for Kuwait, we've done them because we want to protect our oil interests. Yet these actions have harmed the people of Iraq, not the Hussein regime. If anything, our policies serve to generate support for Hussein, who uses American aggression as a convenient scapegoat to deflect attention from his own oppression. Sadly, we've made him a martyr in Iraq and much of the wider Muslim world, alienating many otherwise pro-Western Iraqi moderates in the process. I question the wisdom, and the necessity, of once again traveling 6000 miles to pick a fight with a third-world Muslim nation that is simply not threatening us.

I fear that we are about to embark on an undeclared, unconstitutional war in Iraq that is exceedingly unwise and fraught with unforeseen consequences. This war will have nothing to do with US national security or Iraqi aggression. It will, however, make us all less secure by antagonizing millions of Muslims.

The brilliant counsel of this great man, Rep. Ron Paul, the unquestioned conservative leader of the House of Representatives is completely in harmony with the foreign policy advocated by our noble and wise founders. Paul is articulating an America First foreign policy on Iraq advocated by an even more famous and renowned conservative champion, Pat Buchanan, in his acclaimed and scholarly book on American history and foreign policy, A Republic, not an Empire. Together Rep. Paul and Pat Buchanan are providing principled leadership for America First conservatives against the War Party in the White House led by neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz that say we must attack every possible threat country in the world beginning with Iraq before they even have the capability to attack us. This is the policy of unprincipled one-world government NWO imperialism and must be repudiated by conservatives throughout the country especially those in positions of leadership in Congress if we are to remain a free, independent and sovereign republic.