"If any of the people you listed were staunch advocates of preemptive war against a country whose leader merely had a desire to attack us (although he had no means to do so) then I guess it would be relevent."

All of the people PP listed advocate a policy that allowed us to be attacked. If you realized that maybe what you say would be relevent. What is that old saying victims act like victims.
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Liberalism is a mental illness!