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Oh, I forgot to tell

Oh, I forgot to tell you -- Jim Henley is doing a simply outstanding job of blogging the other side of the Iraq debate. He's weighting certain factors differently from the way I do -- in particular, he is weighting the fear of the state much more heavily (I agree that war is the health of the state, but a quick look back at wars previous to WWII indicates that even a largish war does not have to produce a large permanent increase in bureacracy -- WWII certainly aggravated things, but it was building on earlier ideological, economic and political trends that I don't see operating here), while weighting the risk that Sadaam will pass a nuclear warhead off to a group like Hamas much more lightly than I do. Neither of us can prove our point without looking in Sadaam's head, and of course the only way to do that is to invade so we can open it up and have a gander (how's that for a new pro-war argument, Jim? ;-). But you should definitely be reading his site. I haven't linked any particular post because he's got a bunch of 'em.