Your profile says you're new here. Without judgment of your claims about WMD and the Iraq War, I'd recommend that you take a look at the HN guidelines on comme

Your profile says you're new here. Without judgment of your claims about WMD and the Iraq War, I'd recommend that you take a look at the HN guidelines on comments and submissions: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's pretty hard to have only a lukewarm opinion on these issues, and there's sufficient diversity of views around here to ensure that arguments on political topics are fractious and unenlightening. So we tend to avoid those. I highly recommend these articles, which describe a similar thought process: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/02/politics_is_the.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/02/politics_is_the.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/policy_debates_.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/policy_debates_.html