Good Essays on Iraq

Just for my reference as much as anything, here's a new article that tries to debunk some of the various arguments against the Iraq war; it makes for interesting reading. Also, this old essay by Steven Den Beste does as good a job as anything I've seen for spelling out the reasons that I hope our leaders had in mind when expanding the Global War on Terror to the Iraqi theater. (My own attempt to record my thoughts on why expanding the war was the right thing to do can be found here.)
I'd be interested to see what my good friend Rob over at Rob's Blog Online Magazine has to say about these two articles. You should go over there and check; you might be his 10,000th visitor! (Last link not necessarily safe for work, or if your wife is looking over you shoulder.)

Going deep...

Update 1101 13 July: Via Instapundit, a new OpinionJournal article on connections between Saddam and Al Qaeda.