Guest UnBaitcasting Guest, you did a pretty good job with your Categories there. 1 and 2 overlap a bit re the Human Rights Rationale; but, so what? So do we all.

I think (seriously) that the main category you left out--understandable oversight--is that in which Clinton Hammond tonguecheekily (??) located himself, namely, those who are For the War because they are For War generally. (Hmm "Generally" indeed; lemme rephrase that, Colonel, Ret.) Actually there are lots of people who feel that way. From a distance, usually (though not always). The "USA Kicks Ass!" caucus, yknow. Some of them would overlap into your category 3. However, those folks aren't heavily represented among the Folkie Folks here on the 'Cat.

OK. Me, I'm mostly category 2. I like freedom & so I like seeing murderous bloody tyrants thrown down. By their own enslaved victims if possible; by outside forces if necessary. I think that brutal Arab totalitarians deserve such fate no less than (just for one example) Teutonic ones. I applaud the destruction of Saddam & the supposedly-Muslim Ba'ath for *precisely* the same reasons I would have cheered the ouster of Franco and & the purportedly-Christian Falange, if only somebody had had the nerve to take the Generalissimo down before the Almighty decided it's Time he was Workin' Down Below. (I don't equate Hussein to Hitler only because that denigrates the sheer magnitude of Hitler's evil; his only competitors are Stalin & Mao.)

Can we get rid of all the world's bad guys? No. / But we can start somewhere. And Baghdad was a very good place to start.