] Perhaps Iraq would have been a disaster no matter what.
] But there's a thinly veiled racism behind such views,
] implying Iraqis are savages.

Makes a good point about the untenable position of the sanctioning of Iraq that most anti-war people don't appreciate but which Kerry seems to get. The point is that it hasn't worked in Cuba, and Iraq is far less isolated and insignificant from the global political space. The question of Iraq really does imply a question of timing and execution. That, I guess, was what was frustrating to me, and made it so defensible -- we had to do something (eventually) and supporting Saddam wasn't plausible -- but that did not say we needed to go into Iraq now, and so on.