a) Why? I mean, I know “gassed his own people (with gas we gave him for that purpose)” and blah blah blah, but I mean specifically, why did we suddenly sit up and say “you know what, let’s topple Saddam” in particular? Why that particular tyrant at that particular time, As opposed to, say, Charles Taylor or Robert Mugabe? And couldn’t there have been easier, better, more efficient ways to remove Saddam than invading his country, murdering thousands of his people, destroying what ragged infrastructure the country had before, and igniting tensions between rival factions of Muslims, plunging the country into a Civil War arguably even deadlier, pound for pound, than the already sufficently deadly Hussein regime?

b) If the mission’s accomplised, why are we still there, genius?

c) You realise that statement is going to bite you on the ass for the rest of your posting life?

Always glad to help.

I guess I’m not a Democrat then. Coulda fooled me.

I know that the best way to be identified by a Republican as a member of Al Qaeda is to be a dead Iraqi. You would think that after killing tens of thousands of AQ in Iraq, many of them children, we would be making progress, but you would be wrong.

Frank, what was the “mission” in Iraq? I can’t remember.