Are you really ready for another war in Iraq?

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3. No

But I am reliably assured that this time around it's going to be different. We aren't going to get sucked in. Our tattered national credibility will be fully restored. A few random airstrikes will once again accomplish everything we need to do. Elected officials from both sides of the aisle will come together in the national interest, the media will speak with one voice, and nobody will be agitating for expansion. The military industrial complex will not demand any stepping up of hostilities, even though it could mean renewal of that sweet pipeline of treasury dollars back into their corporate coffers.

We're humanitarians! And the only alternative to blowing up a bunch of stuff is to let those poor devils on the side of the mountain starve to death or get massacred. No, I said it's the only alternative. There is nothing else that can be done, or that would accomplish the same purpose.