I did support the intervention in Afghanistan, and still do think this was the right move.

The problem isn't going into Afghanistan and hunting down OBL. I was all for that.

Iraq? That's a whole new story.

The war in Iraq has hurt our efforts in finding OBL, IMHO. Iraq has split our resources. The war in Iraq had no justification and just left us with a bloody nose when we tried to talk, with any authority, as to why we not only believed in our position but could back it up with military might.

When the US was sparring with Iran this last few years, did you really think that the possible treat of military intervention had any weight? Of course it didn't. Our military weight was sqandered in Iraq.

I also don't see why we went to war with Iraq.

I opposed the war in Iraq. I opposed it then and I oppose it now. I didn't the need for this war. The war all was presupposed on weapons of mass destruction, and it seemed that the basis for believing that they existed was a lack of evidence that they didn't exist.

But, with emotions running high and our faith in the government being firm, most people couldn't imagine that our government would mislead us into thinking that Iraq posed more of a threat than it did.

But, as it turns out, those they didn't exist. Those WMD? They didn't exist.

You say how we should have gone in, because life was hard for the folks in Iraq. True, life was hard. Its hard in a lot of places. And, unfortunately, we have our military dying because life is hard there.

So, for me, I didn't think that we should go into Iraq after 9/11. I didn't think that there was sufficient evidence of WMD. I didn't think that we should go into Iraq to rebuild nations.

In short, when I believed that the government was telling me the truth, I thought that the war in Iraq was wanton. Now, I think that it was a vanity war.

If it ends up well on any level, I'll embrace the good results. Bad things can lead to little roses and all that.

But I have no question in my mind that this wasn't the right path for the US.