I'm back.

Yeah, well, I actually got back on Tuesday. Of last week.

Anyway, here's an article about how Things Might've Been if we had never invaded Iraq, from Opinion Journal:

Given the problems and U.S. casualties in Iraq, polls show a large majority of the American people believe the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. Yet if we imagine what the world would look like today if Saddam Hussein had not been deposed, it seems clear that almost no outcome in Iraq would be as adverse to the interests of the United States as today's world with Saddam still in power.

It's a good article, and certainly something to keep in mind when you hear of politicians say the War was a mistake.

I'd like those selfsame politicians (mostly, but not exclusively Democrats) to tell us, on the record, what alternative strategy and tactics they'd've used, and how it would be better. Perhaps, in some sort of forensic debate.