Hold onto your wallets!

[hotwine]

I firmly believe all politicians are spend-aholics, and differ only in the programs they choose to receive their largesse.

As for Iraq: Was Saddam an immediate threat to the U.S.? Probably not, although I'm not privy to current intel. I have absolutely no doubt that he posed an immediate threat to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other oil producers in the Middle East; for he had ably demostrated both the means and the will to use WMD on his enemies (Iran in the 80's) and his own people (Kurds in the 90's), and would have used them again but for his mortal fear of the U.S. All he had to do in Aug 1990 was to press the attack into Saudi Arabia, instead of halting his advance at the Kuwait border; imagine a Saudi royal family held hostage, and how we could have responded. And imagine such a scenario unfolding again in 2002-03, had Pres. Bush not launched Op. Iraqi Freedom. I say God bless George W. Bush and our fighting men (and women, if any of them are) for taking on a job that needed to be done, and for killing the bastards over there so I don't have to in my backyard.