In his latest column, Doug Bandow concludes, “There is no more fundamental duty for government than to protect its people from outside threats. Yet President Bush admits, ‘We’ve got a long way to go’ to defeat al-Qaeda. Making war on Iraq will make that defeat even more distant.”

Exactly. I’m not much for mind games, but you’ve got to wonder why Dubya has it so bad for Saddam when Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists still pose a much greater threat to lives of American residents. Is Dubya taking on Saddam because the decentralized Al Qaeda organization is too difficult to track down and defeat?