Quote Originally Posted by Aenlic
Or we could just eliminate the jingoists. Reliable genetic testing will surely one day allow us to weed out those less fortunate members of the gene pool.
I laughed out loud when I read that.

None of which are wars. You can't fight a war against an idea. If you need a lesson in that, study the history of the Catholic Church fighting the Reformation.
Even when the idea is the destruction of your country?

Saw the post. Too funny. We knew Saddam had WMD's prior to 1991. We even let him use them on his own people and then sent Rummy to shake Saddam's hand and smile, because at the time he was also using them against our enemy, Iran.
You seem to forget the whole hostage of American students thing... Iraq was indeed a lesser of two evils at the time.

What happened to Bush's claim in 2000 that he wouldn't use our troops for foreign nation building?
I think 9/11 drastically changed his foreign policy, and he would have been foolish to not do so. There's a difference between flip-flopping and adapting to new circumstances (the deaths of over a thousand civilians in down-town New York City certainly constitutes a change on one's world view).