wrong war at the wrong time
Well, there are still a couple of people left with some common sense - I'm talking about Byrd (see link above) and Dean.
The rest of the crew - including some Democratic candidates so desperate they're willing to gut the core issue they have - they seem to think that the war is "just" if it's going well and "unjust" if it's going poorly. Give me a break! The capture - or non-capture - of Saddam Hussein has absolutely nothing to do with whther or not this was a just war, or wise foreign policy.
It also - despite the president's remarkable ability to stay on message and ignore reality - has no real bearing on the safety of this country. I get the feeling that a lot of folks still believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11 (he did not) and that his capture would prevent similar events in the future - a real stretch. They don;t seem to understand the basic fact that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin laden were enemies. True, we gave them a common enemy to fight, but that didn't make them friends because in the final analysis Hussein is simply a criminal, whereas bin Laden is a fanatic, and there's a world of difference in the kind of danger they represent.
In our war on Iraq we have removed the lesser danger - Hussein - a tt heprice of increasing the greater danger - bin laden and similar Islamic extremist. That's what George Bush calls making us safer.
