“Why, then, are we at war with Iraq? Because we’ve always been at war with Iraq. The Gulf War, he says, ended with a treaty. Part of the treaty involved Saddam not gassing Kurds any more, and the other part of the treaty involved Saddam allowing weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for weapons. Saddam violated both parts of this treaty and thus asked us to attack him. So that’s the reason, then. Nothing about yellowcake uranium or cooperation with al-Qaeda or anything else.

Now that we “know our enemy” and have a justification for fighting him, what would happen if we left Iraq? Hundreds of thousands of moderate Muslims would die. You know, “everyone who voted in the election that George Bush made possible”? Yeah, them. All dead. Iran would become the “major power” in Iraq and would invade all of its neighbors for “not being Muslim enough.” That having been done, Ahmadinejad would “wipe America off the map” just like he said in his Colu… wait. I seem to remember having watched that speech in person, but what I don’t remember is Ahmadinejad saying that he wants to wipe America off the map. Or Israel, for that matter. But Horowitz said he “watched the speech” and heard Ahmadinejad threaten to kill us all (“because if they detonate a dirty bomb in New York, it won’t distinguish between liberal and conservative”), so maybe my memory is failing. “That’s a gun to your head,” he kept reminding us. I suppose that questions about the morality of Osama’s guns versus Bush’s guns are better left to philosophers.”
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