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I got a lot of emails last week responding to the second installment of TPM’s interview with Ken Pollack. In particularly, there were a lot of responses to this passage …

I’ve always felt that we had to go to war against Iraq sooner rather than later. But I didn’t necessarily think it had to be this year. And there were always a whole bunch of things that I wanted to do to make sure that we were ready to go when we did go. But the problem that I face now is that I think we are so deep into this – we are so far down this road – that it is now or never. I think that if we don’t go to war this time around I don’t think we will ever go to war with Saddam Hussein until he’s acquired nuclear weapons. And then he picks the time and place of going to war … if given my preference I would prefer not to be in the position we’re in. But I can’t turn back time. And we’re in the position we’re in. And at this point in time, as messy as it may be, I think that it is now or never. And now is a much better option than never.

This captures a lot of the extreme discomfort of those like myself who think we should deal with Saddam but have started to wonder at what point the enterprise becomes so terribly botched that the cure becomes more harmful than the disease. E.J. Dionne touched on this in his Post column yesterday, as did the DLC’s New Dem Daily.

My column in The Hill this week addresses the point too. As I say in the last line of the column “We’re all hostage to the Bush administration’s incompetence, whether we like it or not.”

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