Hitler believed a free-thinking army could never match a dictated disciplined regime, and it's a perfectly sensible thing disguised as a paradox that there is strength in skepticism and discord.

I'm not really for the war, but since the war began, I am for hoping for the best outcome. I am glad to see a brutal dictator fall, whatever the motives. And I doubt the whole "motivation" theory counts for as much as people often seem to think, anyway--it's only in poor fiction and seductive conspiracy theories, not in life, that the future neatly obeys anyone's will.

   I also don't bother about the morale of the troops, since nothing I say or do could possibly undermine that more than the dazzlingly inept diplomacy of Bush, or the undermining of supplies and support accomplished by Rumsfeld.

I guess I'm for the war because it's already happened. Before that I wasn't sure, but doubted it was necesary, or a good idea, because I found the leadership unconvincing, ill-tempered, poor-spoken (by which I mean that it was never for a second a very good idea to frame the question in terms that lent themselves to interpretation as a religious war) and generally muddled-sounding.

I guess I have no original reasons for it, but I do hope it may serve as a deterent to other tyrants who might consider amassing large-scale weapons. I just don't know if it will be seen that way.