- But for branding honest skeptics as cowardly appeasers, Kristol and his ilk will owe many apologies if, as he now worries, those vaunted weapons are never found.
I didn´t think Saddam was a threat and I didn´t think going to war would make it safer to be an American in this world. I think at this point we can be pretty certain that my first belief was essentially correct. There really will never be any way to prove that my second belief was or wasn´t correct.
But, in any case, Instahack and the rest of the Bush sycophants declared us ¨objectively pro-Saddam.¨ The supposedly level-headed Eugene Volokh wrote ¨future history¨piece in which appeasers like me won and Saddam blows up a major American city or two.
Who knows, maybe war was a good thing. All I know is lots of coalition forces are dead. Thousands of Iraqis are dead, by whatever measure, with more kids being liberated from their existence every day. (You try living without fresh water or an adequate sewage system in 100 degree heat for a little while - see how long your kids last).
If, as Kristol now says, the war was prudent but not urgent then the fact the administration triply scewed the pooch on this one is unassailable. If there was no rush, then they could have been far more organized to deal with the aftermath.
Bush lied, soldiers died.