Breeze, that line is almost as funny as the fact that you think finding it on a website, without citation, means it must be true. That website knows its market pretty well – suckers who will believe anything that speaks badly of Bush. It’s not like the man lacks documented verbal screwups, yet you can’t manage to find anything real to support what I’ll generously call your ‘point’?

4plex, we were prepared for war in Kuwait from 1991 to 2003, and no war came. We were unprepared in 1990, and guess what?

Suppose we made an immediate, credible commitment to abjure preparation for war, and withdrew all American forces to the US. Would that make war more or less likely in Korea? Or Taiwan? Israel made a preemptive strike against Iraq’s nuclear capability over 20 years ago. Would they have been safer leaving Saddam alone?