Update: Avedon Carol of The Sideshow turns the tables and asks: Why did anyone support the invasion of Iraq?

Kevin Drum has set off a minor “kafuffle” by attempting to make generalizations and judgments about the correctness of individuals over Bush’s War™. The framing would seem to be that to be correct you had to oppose the war for the correct reason. While George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft fit in that limited category, there were a number of people who opposed the war for a variety of valid reasons that are true and have nothing to do with the lies of this administration or the incompetent manner in which the war and occupation have been conducted.

During the relevant period I was on mail lists discussing the war, and my reasoning was very straightforward: the war was unnecessary and a waste of resources including lives.

It was easy to show that at one point Saddam had WMDs because the Reagan administration helped him get them and the US government had the paperwork on those transactions. The UN inspectors rooted out many of the facilities after the first Gulf War, but so what?

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I am having a spam attack which is really annoying. You won’t see it, but it is using space and bandwidth on the server that I have to pay for. While it isn’t a lot of money, it is still annoying.

HaloScan’s host did some server upgrades over the weekend and things are still flaky. This is normal and not a disaster. Software has to be reloaded after a server upgrade and there will always be a few settings that get changed in the process and have to be reset. It is a pain when you are attempting to make your killer, pithy comments, but chill, things will get better. The system accidentally hit a database limit and has been generating silly error messages. The comment is usually posted, but the counter won’t be incremented. There will also be periods when the system just refuses to cooperate as processes are stopped to do work. Experience tells me this is a temporary glitch.