[alphageek31337]

When you don't know the facts, or are trying to prove a negative (logically impossible), don't you go on best known information? You know, years of weapons inspections finding nothing and effective (albeit choking) sanctions making sure nothing new comes in. Do you go on satellite readings that would have detected a handful of nuclear material showing up nothing? Do you go on the fact that there was obviously an agenda to invade the country and that the bushies were simply waiting for an opportunity to go in? Do you go on the fact that even the biggest proponents of the WMD idea have had to come back, wip the egg off of their faces and admit they were wrong? Or do you just bomb the fuck out of the entire planet because we don't know if any nation actually has WMD?

As far as defending the US, the best thing for America to do is to get its head out of its ass and admit the truth: We fucked up, we're sorry, and we need help. Because we did fuck up, we went to war on a false pretense. Whether we believed it to be true is notwithstanding. We are sorry, or at least we should be. We made a mess in Iraq and, while life is indeed better for the average citizen, it's also better for the average terrorist. And we do need help: the cost of this war in money and lives is higher than we ever predicted, and while it won't bankrupt the nation, it'd be a nice gesture to help put the stop-loss on our financial situation and for me not to have to go to my good friend from high-school's funeral in a couple of days. I wonder how many other graduating classes are going to have memorial pages in the program at their 5 year reunion...