From: Monte Davis 

"Mark"  wrote:

>What I'm rejecting is the left's trotting their statements out as iron-clad
>evidence that had their positions been implemented all would be strawberries
>and cream... We'll never know how their plans
>may have worked

Oh, I think we can be pretty confident of a two things.

Con:

Saddam Hussein would still be among the many dictators who savagely oppress
their own people, would love to have WMDs but don't, and feel some
_schadenfreude_ about a 9/11 attack they had nothing to do with

Pro:

The US would have less of a track record for blustering incompetence in
intelligence work, in public diplomacy, and in postwar operations.... and
fewer apologists like you, falling back step by step from "crusade for
US security and Iraqi freedom" three years ago to "well, maybe it
could have been worse" today.

>just what is a sequence of events and timeline that one would
>expect IN A WAR [emphasis mine] in a war that would be considered successful
in comparison
>to the existing one?

"Your honor, if you'll grant that I had no choice but to drink eight
whiskeys and then drive my car, the subsequent accident wasn't all that
bad."

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