No being sidetracked here, Big Al. That last line was my way of saying this discussion has been .....ahem...put to bed. That is, no rational person could have any reasonable argument against what has been counterpointed by the various contributors.

See ya at the next bunfight, cause I'm done with this one...

Well done ozaware. See you in another bunfight.

In response to the extremist right wing views and values of Ozaware, it is perhaps timely to review your polemical position and suggest it smacks of an individual who has swallowed hook, line and sinker the debate that satisfies Whitehouse values. Pity - and yes I have "attempted" to read your diatribe and suggest that it confirms my suspicions that you are an advocate of the right that pupports to hold the moral ascendancy on all things Iraq. Pity that you entirely missed the point of Lukin's argument that war can be waged using language. The semiotics of war are littered with the language idealogues - a point you are keen to gloss over or neglect all together.