Now, Amos, explain to me how different, in a material sense, was the American pre-emptive attack on Iraq recently than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? More Iraqui stuff got smashed up, more bombs dropped, more Iraquis killed, and it was an unprovoked attack on someone who had not attacked America. How would this be seen in future histories if America were to LOSE a major war and fall from her position of world dominance? Not well, I can assure you.



Don't ask me to defend the invasion of Iraq, Leedle Hack; it is beyond me to do so, and you need only read my last two years' posts on the subject to know that! A huge and shameful scandal, to my mind. I am glad Saddam is out of power and perhaps in the long run something good may surface from it. But what an awful means to such an end!

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