Preventing War
Polls show the American people increasingly support the war in Iraq, much to the chagrin of your average Democrat running for president who isn't named Joe Lieberman.

I support it too.

I support Bush's call and actions to spread it to the Middle East. A freer, more democratic Middle East will be more prosperous and produce fewer terrorists, and fewer Americans will die in Islamist terror attacks. Fewer Muslims will die, too, because if Islamist terrorists ever did use a WMD - a suitcase nuke, a bio weapon, a chemical weapon, a dirty bomb - to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, the only possible response from the U.S. would be the vaporizing of the main capitals of the enemy. Baghdad. Tehran. Damascus. Maybe even Riyadh.

We will have no choice - if the enemy starts to slaughter us with WMDs, we will have to use even greater force - and that means nuking whole cities, killing millions in an eye-blink. The alternative would be to sit, do nothing, and be slaughtered.

I'd rather us go in now, kill a few thousand terrorists and Iraqi Baathist dead-enders, lose only a few hundred Americans (as tragic as that is for them and their loved ones) and prevent a far more horrific future by planting democracy and creating a new ally in the middle of the Middle East - and setting off a wave of change in the Middle East that will turn the Islamic world from its current, suicidal, direction.

I supported the conventional-arms invasion of Iraq now so we won't have to defeat Iraq later by killing tens of millions of people with horrific weaponry.

Because of what we did to Saddam now, in the future - say, 25 years from now - no one will ever ask a question like this:

If you could go back in time, knowing Saddam was going to give those Russian suitcase nukes to al Qaeda, who used them to vaporize Israel (6 million dead) and take out New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago (100 million dead,) would you have supported stopping him before it got that far?

If you could go back to 1935 and take out Hitler, would you?

This year, with this murderous dictator, we did.