Neocon says:

If you read through the website, you can see that I don’t deny that the globe is warming (despite the recent cooling trends we’ve seen since the early 2000s). The question is whether it is anthropogenic or not. I’ve actively looked into this issue and I’m completely unconvinced. That doesn’t mean that I would disparage the intent of people who believe it is caused primarily by man, I’m sure they’re trying to do what they believe is best for the planet, but I disagree. However, I would call into question the legitimacy and the character of the most radical proponents like Al Gore, someone who is actively profiting from the hysteria he is inducing.

As far as Iraq goes, the intelligence and consensus was just as large as it is for anthropogenic global warming– if not stronger given that Saddam positively had chemical and biological weapons. It was just a matter of whether he had destroyed the stocks he had or if he had continued to produce them. Of course if we want to go all the way back to the beginning of the Iraq war then we need to examine what a consensus of learned people really means.

Neocon says:

The link you just provided states flatly that we did not provide Saddam with chemical or biological weapons.

“I don’t think it would be accurate to say the United States government deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis’ biological weapons programs,” said Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector.

“But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the time.”

The same claim is ironically presented in Moore’s ‘Dude where’s my country’, followed quickly by documentation stating the same thing your link does– that we did not provide him with WMD. Saddam was an ally, so Iraq had the same sort of privileges that other nations medical programs had.

You’re mistaken about both support for the war and the context of what I said. I stated that Saddam’s WMD programs were well-documented and it was an accepted fact in the intelligence community. I never said that the consensus response was war. However, it wasn’t just the brits who backed us.

Attacking Saudi Arabia makes no sense either, unless you’ve now endorsed the idea that nationality somehow equates directly to the actions of an individual? In that case shouldn’t we be profiling anyone who is a Muslim, as a shocking 100% of the 9/11 attackers were Muslim. It’s ludicrous.

Yes, why should we worry about countries invading each other if most people can’t find them on a map, right? It’s not like small conflicts have ever boiled over to start two world wars or anything. I would talk to Viktor Yushchenko, Mikheil Saakashvili, or Alexander Litvinenko before I put Russia in the ‘nothing to worry about’ column.

Neocon says:

Don\’t blame me – I voted for Ron Paul.

Well, he’s better than Obama.