No one can say anything that will cause me to rethink my position on the invasion of Iraq. Death by wood-chipper, torture by power-drill and delightful dips in acid baths were all horrors faced by the Iraqi people under Saddam's regime. Someone needed to do something to eliminate this evil. Saddam had eliminated everyone who could have possibly opposed him. If not us, who? In fact, we should have done something sooner, and not just in Iraq. We should have intervened earlier in the Balkans and we should have stopped the genocide in Rwanda. I regret the suffering experienced by the Iraqi people as a result of our invasion but I still think that the end justifies the means.

I realize that it is a cliche, but I truly believe that the quotation ascribed to Edmund Burke summarizes my position best:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

We wouldn't even be having this conversation if Big Al had just carried his home state: he would have won the 2000 election. Instead, we are stuck with this Democratic internecine feud. Our troops are dying every day in Iraq, and Al Gore decides it's payback time for the Clintons. This guy so badly wants to become some type of statesman for the 21st century yet he can't get over feeling that we was snubbed and overshadowed by the Clintons. So rather than take the high road and put the past behind him, he wants his pound of flesh. This kind of small-mindedness will get you no where, Al.

I thought that his bit at the Johnny Cash memorial was very nice, very tasteful, but this latest bit of political maneuvering is so petty. More importantly he's backing the wrong horse- Dean is just a 21st century Dukakis. Al Gore's political career is over.