Septic complains about “The…. clear desire to invade Iraq (regardless of the facts)….” etc, etc, etc.

Sigh. Same old whine. Amazing that s/he’s so sure of “the facts.” Surely s/he wouldn’t have been concerned by the same intel that convinced most of the leaders of the free world that Saddam’s WMD threat and ties to terrorism were probable enough to be taken seriously.

Myself, I’m grateful that Bush had a pair big enough to take the heat rather than risk a US city to the the consequences of a more timid decision. It’s the same kind of courage that kept WWII off US soil and that made D-Day, VE Day, and VJ Day possible.

And maybe more to the point, it’s the same kind of courage that won the peace in Europe and Japan after the fighting was over. Now that the war in Iraq is winding down, it will really be a “priceless expenditure of American credibility” if our next president doesn’t have the moral stature to stay long enough to win the peace there too.