Oh, allow me to spell it out in small words for you, drmiler.
Iraq had not a thing to do with 9/11. And no, I have not forgotten. You and Alan Jackson want to keep us all on September 11. Forever. Amen. The only possible link to al-Qaeda in Iraq was in the Kurdish North...an area Saddam Hussein didn't control...but like the Pakistanis, the Kurds get big hugs and kisses from the USA, even though they harbor the very people who planned the horrible attack you invoke every time someone doesn't agree with George Bush. I think you've used up all the political credit you had with that one.
Now, if you want to argue the whole "Saddam was bad, it was good we took him out..." well at least that's more honorable. But the point was made that people not wanting to fight in Iraq was people not being 'security' minded (but not by you, drmiler, you don't make points, you just cut and paste other people's). That's just conservative pap. Now I'll be called a Neville Chamberlain type or some other nonsense. That's fine. Either that, or the poetic drmiler will call me a 'butthead' like he did someone on another thread.
But he's a self-professed redneck, so what do you expect?