"What would be the current state of affairs in Iraq if the inspectors never found anything and we had never gone to war?"

well, what would be the state of Japan if we hadn't bombed them? What would be the state of Germany if it hadn't been so cold on the Russian front in '43?...who knows? We simply can't answer rhetorical question like that. EVERYONE knows by now that the way this war was planned and conducted was a mistake, but Bush totally refuses to do anything but blather about "staying the course"....like Vietnam, perhaps? Until he has to resort to a draft? Until we have offended the last ally and the last 3 Muslims who were supporting us? Until soldiers flatly refuse to go over there and be blown up, not by other soldiers, but by guys in old cars who simply don't LIKE us being in the country?
   "What if they gave a war, and nobody came?"

I DO know that we'd have about $100,000,000,000 more in the bank and 10s of thousands fewer bodies (some ours, some theirs...some with heads, some without).

Kerry has been in a war....I suspect he can answer some of my questions better than our fearless sometime National Guard member...