I totally disagree with the notion that we had to "invade" Iraq in order to ascertain whether or not they had weapons of mass destruction, that posed an "immenent and direct threat" to the world's peace, and to the safety of the United States.
With patience, perseverance, and working with the world community, on an issue that is a "world issue", we could have come to the same incontrovertible conslusion that we now have: Iraq did not pose the threat it was trumpted to pose!
It's a great fallacy to talk as if we can only say this by historical hindsight! Real leadership and concern for "needless shedding of blood", would have given us the same conclusion we now have, at a greatly reduced cost to the American tax payer, in blood and money!
Your intelligent phrasing of words is much negated by your immature "blood-for-oil" Bush-dubbery of "we had to go in"! For Americas safety! Yeah right! This war was planned long before it was carried out!
"We will go to war because we have to, not because we want to!"
Amen to that Brother!