I thank the member who, in a refreshing burst of honesty and via red APs, confessed to being "either poorly informed or deliberately ignorant". Perhaps if you truly are as mentally challenged as your point of view would suggest it would be better to leave such difficult decisions to those who we elect to make them.

War is never a popular option, but neither is the business of running a country a popularity contest. The political courage to do what is right, regardless of popularity, exemplifies the qualities of leadership and strength of character that I for one had never hoped nor expected to find in a (purportedley) socialist government.

(Note for the American bretheren: The socialist government to which I refer is the encumbant British executive.)

L'Union Fait La Force Neg? I think that makes your position rather clear I'd be interested in the logic of your arguments however. Anti-war opinion, from what I can gather, seems to fall into the following categories:

1...Appeasment argument
No war under any circumstances. Predominatly the position of tree huggers.

2..."It's a long way away..." argument
No credible threat from the nexus of world terrorism and rouge states with weapons of mass destruction. Predeminatly the position of people who have lived under a rock since september 10th 2001.

3...Evil empire argument
America and Britain are attempting to annexe Iraq in order to ethnicly cleanse the population and steal the oil (without the world press noticing presumably Predominatly the position of consipracy theorists and Osama Bin Laden.

4..."Smoking Gun" argument
Additional time for inspectors to find the "smoking gun" before war. Predominatly the position of people who don't realise that a smoking gun has just been fired at someone.

5...The Blix argument
Limited additional time for inspectors to assertain Iraqi delivery on new promises of co-operation following the Blix report to the UNSECCO. The position of the UK government.

As someone who I consider to be at the very least my intellectual equal I'm guessing you're a 5 neg