[Mike4Freedom]

I disagree completely with the premise of this article. If we had been told before the war that Iraq was absolutely no danger to us, that it had no WMDs, that it was an economic basket case, the American public and Congress would not have signed off on a war. The obvious rejoinder is that many nations are evil to their own people, as much or more so that Hussein was, but, as long as they are no threat to us, it is not our business to put our troops at risk and our money in the pot to do something about it.

All this discussion after the fact, in an attempt to make excuses for what happened is actually embarrassing. I am embarrassed that most of the public apparently accepts it. It bodes ill for our future.

[gop4me]

I agree completely. When you hype something as much as the administration did and then it turns out to be a bunch of hooey, then you lose credibility and I resent the fact that a handful of the President's men led him down the garden path in order to satisfy their agenda. This will end up making our President look bad and for that his advisors should be fired at once.

[stryker]

I agree. I have even heard two administration officials refer to Saddam's brutality as unprecedented in history. It scares me that people who could make such enormously stupid statements could actually have a say in shaping our public and international policy.