[applemac_g4]

"...But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it."

"...instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking,

Clooney may be an idiot, but he has hit upon a couple of nuggets of truth with the above statements. The real danger in this war with Iraq is not so much Iraq as it is the administration's mindset that there are "peaceful and violent Muslims." It's been formulated for the sake of political correctness, but completely ignores Islamic doctrine and the Muslim mind.

If we invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, it's like that a Shia government will replace him - one that's friendly to Iran - and the amount of Islamic terrorism in the world will increase.

I will maintain till my dying day that the appropriate response to 9-11 was a strategic nuclear strike on the cities of Mecca and Medina followed by the sternest lecture on world wide television ever given by an American president. But I suppose we have to wait for them to vaporize one of our cities before doing that.

[A_perfect_lady]

I will maintain till my dying day that the appropriate response to 9-11 was a strategic nuclear strike on the cities of Mecca and Medina followed by the sternest lecture on world wide television ever given by an American president.

I agree. Mecca should have been a smouldering hole in the ground by noon on Sept 12th. But Bush apparently never got my memo.