What You Don't Read in the Papers

[Moldran]

Wrong question. Was the operation in Iraq justified is more in line with what we should be asking.

That depends on your criteria for a justified war, of course.

This war removed one of the most terrible and dangerous dictatorships of the present world.
It did this very fast and with *relatively* few casualties. It was more than justified in my opinion. It should have been done 10 years earlier, but hey - better late than never.

And, if the purpose was "get a son of a bitch out of power", where do we stop?

Tricky question. In any case, it is better to get at least one "son of a bitch out of power" than none at all.

Where you should stop after Iraq, I don't know. I do know that stopping before Iraq would have been a mistake. A mistake with potentially terrible consequences.

If it was necessary to lie to the American public in order to make the removal of the Baath regime possible, then it is a good thing that they were being lied to. If what you imply is true, that the war would not have started if Bush had spoken the truth, which I doubt, then his lies probably safed more lives than they costed.

I'm for reopening the courthouse in Nuremberg.

To put charges against the leading Baath fascists, I assume. You need to get hold of the rest of them first. And Nuremberg would definately be the wrong place. Let that job be done by Iraqi courts in Baghdad.