[SmileyEH]

my god is glassman a ree-ree

"Our country took a gamble in overthrowing Saddam. Successful, we establish a democracy that is pro US, the barbarity of Saddam ends, and we have an outpost smack dab in the middle of the opponents of civilization – opponents wholly committed to exportation of their cultural, religious, and political pathology. Failure might include a score of unforeseeable nightmares.

When the going looked good, support was near unanimous. When the difficulty of bringing the 3rd century into the 21st became apparent, many American’s reversed their support and found relief from their, disappointment, embarrassment, cowardice, and shame by concocting a lie – that they’d been lied to. Ironic.

There’s a lot at stake – even politically. Should we, America, civilization, prove victorious, many American’s are going to be widely seen as having been historically, morally, politically, and tactically wrong. These people now need, for their self-image, American defeat complete with the realization of any of the unforeseeable nightmares incumbent in defeat. For this they hope above all else.

For those of us who saw the risk as worth the taking, defeat, while tragic, won’t repudiate the effort. That’s the nature of noble effort, risk, and sacrifice. That’s the value and cost of freedom and liberty. That’s our faith that every man, everywhere, is deserving of freedom.

WMD’s are but one piece in the puzzle. "