Chives,

OKay so someone punches you in the face and its good for you to "punch anyone within reach"?


Yes if they are involved in the matter.

You see your assumption implies that Iraq was an innocent bystander. You continue that implication with the wife beating analogy.

If my wife was shagging the Seahawks and had most of them trying to kill me and she told me if she ever had the chance she would kill me I would do what ever was needed to protect myself before I went to sleep that night. A liberal on the other hand would try and find someone to blame and want the govt. to protect him then take the wife back and hope she would not bang any more football players. She would switch to the sonics but the liberal would deny it.