Except you, perhaps?
Now BullDog. I invite you to read everything I've ever written and see if I have ever implied support for anyone other than the US, and if my support was ever less than 100%.
I don't give a damn about Iraq, it's leader, it's people. Ditto that for the entire Middle East. And Europe. And Asia, Africa, South and Central America...you get the idea. A war of liberation is an awful reason to go to war; as I said, I don't care about them.
My only concern is for the US, and for her soldiers.
We have been planning to invade since the President named the Axis of Evil 15 months ago. While I thought at the time it was hyperbolic rhetoric, if he had followed the speech with immediate (say, within a week) action, I would have been impressed.
It was never a question of "if". President Bush went the appease-the-UN route (which true Conservatives are not supposed to do), using those sham investigators, giving Saddam time (15 months and counting) to prepare his defenses. But we were going to invade no matter what the inspectors found or did not find, no matter what Saddam disclosed or not, no matter what he destroyed or not.
I knew it, you knew it, Saddam knew it. It was not a question of "if". We put him in a position where he has nothing to lose.
Obviuosly Saddam does not have the conventional forces to meet the 250K US troops over there, so he's going to, as I said, throw the sink at his invaders. Including, I predicted, launching bio- and chem-Scuds at American invaders and/or Israel.
This should surpise noone. It is desperate, yes, and unpleasant, certainly. But the war planners should have seen it coming; perhaps they did (I see the 2nd ACR getting their NBC gear in order before deploying), and it's only starry-eyed idiots that did not. If noone saw it coming, then are they the ones we want leading us in war.
To bring this full circle, I fear the useless loss of American soldiers, a loss that could have been avoided by not appeasing the UN.
And I objecting to the use of the term "chivalry". Desperation is rarely chivalrous.