Whistle Stop:

If you bother reading the thread, you wills ee that I acknowledged ANonymous Guestie's articulation int he next post.

That does not mean that it is not a disingenuous articulation, done post-facto. The war was NOT entered into on these primises; they are an after-the-fact rationalization. It is possible that a visionary concept of stabilizing the Mideast with a democracy was stuck in Rove or Wolfowitz' head back in 2001 when they were already motivatin' to go to war, but this is the kind of opportunistic warmongering that has already ruined one democaracy -- that of ancient Athens -- and could easily undermine another -- ours.

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