Self-defense v. "pre-emptively" beating the hell out of someone smaller and weaker.
Who, in their way, is winning the battle.
It's not what the Iraqis have done which is beating the US, it's what the Americans have done.
And it's hard, I guess, to report on a country going half-way around the world to a people who were no threat and kill, maim, wound and torture them.
And even if it's what the US has done that has caused the US the most harm, to some people the real problem is the press which reports it.
Not doing it, but the reporting is evil.
What a philosophy.
Arf