Dan - I never stated that I thought that the Iraqi civilians were more expendable than ours. Not sure where you picked that up from.
And to your question - "what gives us the right to fight our war on terror in someone elses backyard"
I stated in my post on 8/10 why I thought we needed to enter Iraq. I also wish a coalition of forces had entered the Sudan to stop the slaughter there.
Maybe I'm taking the radical Islamic terrorist network too seriously.
