Posted here Sunday, October 10, 2004 at 8:56:01 PM 
Here is a nice combination of articles on the Iraq dilemma
from
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PRESS REVIEW, OCTOBER 9
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005735
5. PAGING BILL CLINTON – EDITORIAL (LOS ANGELES TIMES, OCTOBER 9):
It’s hard to come up with a stirring campaign slogan for the idea that going to Iraq was a mistake but that we now have to succeed there.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-debate9oct09,1,3470261.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
6. SIZING UP IRAQ: THINGS ARE COMING TO A HEAD IN THE MIDDLE EAST – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (NATIONAL REVIEW): The administration’s gaffes all share a common theme of restraining our military power in fear of either Middle Eastern or European censure. But once one climbs into a cesspool like Iraq, one must either clean it up or go home, and that means suffering the 48-hour hysteria of the global media about collateral damage in exchange for killing the terrorists and freeing the country. Only that way can we impress the fencesitting Iraqis that we employ an iron fist in service to their own security and prosperity, and thus we -- not the beheaders and kidnappers -- are their only partners for peace.
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200410080826.asp
7. DISSIMULATION REIGNS: WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON IN THE MIND OF SADDAM HUSSEIN? – WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. (NATIONAL REVIEW): So we have an odd coincidence. The coalition powers, led by the U.S., believe that Saddam has weapons sufficient to repel the U.S. and to threaten other nations. Saddam thinks the very same thing. The U.S.
acts on its assumption (it invades), and Saddam acts on the same assumption (he does nothing to abort war).
http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/wfb200410081355.asp
8. EXITING IRAQ IS THE ONLY SOLUTION - ANDREW GREELEY (CHICAGO SUN TIMES, OCTOBER 8/COMMON DREAMS): There are arguments against withdrawal from Iraq. We will lose prestige and credibility around the world? The thunderous silence after Bush’s United Nations speech shows just how much credibility the United States currently possesses. The Iraqis will fight a civil war? They already are. Turkey and Iran will be drawn in? They’re welcome to it. The radical Islamists (mostly
Saudis) will claim a great victory? They sure will, and we gave it to them when we decided to invade Iraq. We will lose the Iraqi oil? Ah, so that’s why there’s a war?
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