Claudia.
Claudia,Claudia,Claudia.

You’re going to get hammered for this piece of commentary, and deservedly so. Yes, global Jihad was a threat before the debacle in Iraq, but you’re conflating here. Launching a war on Saddam would never have made us safer in that regard; you don’t need to be an expert on the Middle East to understand that…you just have to use common sense. The administraion “cooked the books” to get us into this mess. Now over twenty thousand Americans have paid the price for that, almost three thousand paying the ultimate sacrifice. And for what, Claudia? Your entire premise, that the terrorist threat would have been worse regardless, rings as hollow as the administrations’ rationale for starting the fiasco. Here’s a tip: read up on the history of the Middle East. Then try to understand how you would feel if you were an Iraqi today. And how you might be thanking George Bush if you were a Jihadist. In the meantime, I’ll remain with the sixty-or-so percent of America who disagrees with the convoluted arguments that brought us to this shameful point in our history.