Reply #101: It's the occupation of Iraq that I opposed.

[dawg]

I would not have had a major problem with a series of air-strikes against the Hussein regime. Such strikes were, in fact, carried out by the Clinton administration. The only vocal opposition was from Republicans who claimed the strikes were an attempt to distract the public from the Lewinsky affair.

Had the strikes succeded in toppling the regime, countless lives could have been spared that were later lost in the Bush administration's attempt to occupy and pacify a divided nation on the other side of the Earth.

I have mixed feelings about Libya. But Iraq was a terrible idea from the start.