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1. all the intelligence agencies in the world were not telling us saddam had wmds. even our own intelligence folks had their doubts. we've gone over this time and time again, and even the bush administration's own people are now starting to admit that the intelligence was shaded.
2. common sense told me the war would not be as easy as it was being sold to the public. even GHWB knew invading iraq would not be a good idea.
3. your analogy is incorrect. a more accurate analogy would be some punk kid waving a gun across town at someone besides you. also, america is not the world's police. if so, we should have continued the fight in afghanistan and moved to head off the genocide in darfur long before it got to the point where it is today.

back to the original topic, as i've stated needless & wasteful spending should be cut. however, you can't discount the wasteful spending voted for by our politicians simply because their's wasn't the only name on it. if you're serious about objection to needless spending, you should start with the $531 billion elephant in the room rather than the $18 billion in pork doled out by congress (some of which is good, btw).