Reply #66: sorta odd to read that connection here

[salin]

given that bush himself has admitted no connection and had accordingly revised his reasons for going to war (democracy!)

sorta misses the point that not only are there Iraqi children who have died, but there are members of the military who have been put into the situation to have to do the killing... as with Vietnam - not knowing who or where the next attack is coming from ends up with quick trigger fingers... and those folks have to live witih that horror (the situation and the realities of the results of those actions) for the rest of their lives. I know some Vietnam vets who were haunted for at least twenty years by what they lived through and had to do while there.