I just don't know, and am surprised how many people do know, and that they know different things. I fear it's a great mistake. I hoped it would have got to the leadership by now, but instead I'm seeing injured children and distraught families. And soldiers on both sides doing what they have to do. It's a great lot to make up for, by the ends. And I really can't help harboring great doubts about our president as a deeply cultured and morally responsible man, and I mean no offence to anyone who feels otherwise, it's just what I think.

Whether Hussein posed an immediate threat to the US or not, it would be good to honor other less self-interested motives to oppose him. Sustained policy and resolve might've done that, I've read, and many informed people felt that containment was the best course. I'm thinking they were probably right. But I don't know everything I'd need to know. President Bush has been a poor communicator of the case, I'm pretty sure of that.