"Saddam is not, at this time, a direct threat to the US but where is it written that we have to sit by and wait until someone who is our sworn enemy gets his act together."

Well, North Korea is closer to getting its act together than Iraq was. Should we then go to war with them? And all the rest of those "dictators who need to be taken down" too? Saudi Arabia? Cuba? Parade magazine had a list of the ten top tyrants in the world; that'd be ten wars, but of course that would just get the ten worst guys; there's lots more...

The USSR was evil & had lots of WMDs but I don't recall that we had to go to war with them.

And there's no way that the war will be over quickly enough that no more innocents will die. If you have a war, innocents will die. If you vote for war, you inevitably vote for innocents to die, and praying for them is just making it easy on yourself by laying the blame on God.

clint