Orac,
You absolute ba$tard! Comparing me with Bubette. Below the belt, old chap! While I'll admit to a degree of passion on this one, I am open to argument, and I do see right and wrong on both sides of the argument. You may be right. Maybe no-one's listening, but anyone who thinks that the whole Palestine/Israel argument isn't relevant to the likely Arab/Islamic reaction to Dubya's latest folly is kidding himself.
Blue,
We seldom agree, but that is a nicely written statement of the anti-war case.
I'm not sure, however, that imposed regime change ever works (for all the reasons elaborated by steam chicken a couple of pages back) except when a people is completely traumatised by outright defeat and by an extraordinary degree of fear. I'm certain that it's not morally right where the threat posed by a nation is posed only by the leadership/government, and not by the entire society (as was arguably the case in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan).
It's certainly not the USA's place to try and impose its choice of regime on Iraq.