There is no "war debate". We're at war, so the only thing to debate is how it will end and what will happen afterwards. Get over it, stop posting smug pseudo-intellectual rhetoric, and start hoping as hard as you can that this ends well. Because if it doesn't, all the anti-war whining in the world won't save any of our asses.
Or to put it another way, lets make the best of a bad situation
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Straw man rhetoric or not, Thom's post gives a flavour of why invading Iraq might not be the most logical step in the world. I really hope that time shows that the decision makers in this process actually had decent reasons...