Dissident Frogman:
Excellent blog. I've never been here before - but I can assure you that I'll return.
Pierre, mistakes were definitely made during and immediately following the first Gulf War. I don't know what happened - lack of conviction on our part, perhaps, or maybe just an effort to show the world that we weren't trying to take over. Either way, it was a bad decision - and good that we're cleaning it up.
2 other things: Anyone who thinks the United States is a dictatorship has clearly never lived under one, and has never lived in the US. Clearly. Don't cheapen the suffering, pain, and real oppression of others by making ridiculous comparisons.
Republicans who think like you...
And we need more of you...and to echo another wonderful blogger, anyone who still opposes this war supports Saddam and excuses all of his atrocities - and there is no excuse. This war has already been justified - with or without WMDs.