[carton253]

I guess where we have difference of opinion is in whether Iraq a sponsor of terrorism, and have they been involved in attacks against America and American interest.

We are both stymied by the same lack of information. So, it comes down to an issue of trust. There are political, editorial, and intelligence people either we believe or we don't. There is no argument that I can put forward to change your mind if one doesn't believe or agree with the source that we use to base and form our opinions.

[rightwing2]

I guess where we have difference of opinion is in whether Iraq a sponsor of terrorism, and have they been involved in attacks against America and American interest. We are both stymied by the same lack of information. So, it comes down to an issue of trust. There are political, editorial, and intelligence people either we believe or we don't. There is no argument that I can put forward to change your mind if one doesn't believe or agree with the source that we use to base and form our opinions.

Yes, you make a good point here. The issue really comes down to whether you trust the government to do the right thing all of the time and believe everything they say or whether you think it prudent to scrutinize their policies against some objective standard based on conservative and pro-national security principles even if the government is led by members of your own party as here. As for myself, I prefer to measure all of our leaders against an objective standard and sometimes even the Bush Administration falls short on some specific issues when measured against that standard despite the fact that they have my continued support overall even if not on this particular issue. Saddam is an evil dictator who has killed his own people, but then again so have sixty other evil dictators currently in power the world over. Should we be bombing and invading them as well?

I say the US needs to move against the greatest threats to its national security which in this case are Communist China, North Korea and Iran, not Iraq, which remains firmly "in the box" since 1991. Step #1 would be for the Bush Administration to stop their continuation of Clinton's appeasement policies in regards to the PRC and DPRK. Next, we should suggest that North Korea and Iran are fair targets for US military action to put them off balance and deter them from further action against us. Then, we should inaugerate a strategy for how to eliminate the Islamicist regime in Iran and wipe out the DPRK nuclear missile capability in one overwhelming strike.

Freegards...RW2