I don't want to inject politics into my blog, but here's a decent economic point:
So I was just listening to the radio while I was driving, and a caller to a talk show made a decent point about the war. He was a historian, who pointed out that while we normally have moral objections to war profiteering, there are also serious economic ones - that profiteering creates an incentive to drag wars on longer than is necessary.
Interesting point that I haven't heard mentioned anywhere in the current debate.