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If you think only liberals are against GWB's war, then you should read what non-liberals like Pat Buchanan and The Cato Institute have to say about the neo-con's war.

Oh wait, that wouldn't help your point. -c

How fitting that this story was submitted by a poster named "neocon."

National Review is an embarrasment to conservatism and Constitutionally-limited government. It's gone downhill ever since WFB fired Joe Sobran, the best columnist in America, as senior editor.

Now it's just an Israel-First rah-rah rag for GOP hacks with that intellectual paperweight Jonah Goldberg at the helm.

If you want real conservatism (and libertarianism, for that matter) check out

The American Conservative

OR

Chronicles

OR

The New American

"This essay attempts to build a case against the war on systemic grounds; it cannot for reasons of space hope to treat all-important aspects of that systemic case or answer all possible questions and challenges. It talks about the damage a preemptive war would do to the existing international system, but not about the equally important impacts it could have in terms of side effects on nascent changes in the international system needed to meet new problems already looming on the horizon. It draws on international history in regard to preemptive wars, but will not take up a legitimate though tricky question of counterfactual history, i.e., whether certain preemptive wars, had they been waged in the past, might have averted disasters as the advocates of such a war against Iraq claim a war will do now. (1) While examining the official case for a war on Iraq, it will not take up, except in passing fashion in the last footnote, what is possibly the unacknowledged real reason and motive behind the policy - security for Israel."

This excellent essay can be found at American Conservative.