you want talking points? i'll give you talking points.

check out this great piece from peter daou at The Daou Report with rebuttals for ten pro-war fallacies, many of which i've heard flying around a lot these days. i find republican sound bites so exhausting, in that they wear you down with their sheer ubiquity in the mainstream media - you hear them so often, you're sick of thinking about them before you can even begin a nuanced refuting of them.

peter daou, luckily, is not as prone to intellectual laziness as i, and cuts through the crap of so many of these arguments for why we went to war, and why continuing said war is actually a dandy idea. to sum it up, he says:

Washington is suddenly convulsed by a debate that should have taken place three years ago, and the sleeping giant known as the American public is finally awakening to the deceptions that led to war. Emotion, instinct, and other proclivities may be the driving force behind support or opposition for war, but reason and logic are the means by which we try to prove the correctness of our views. No matter how heartfelt, the arguments in favor of the Iraq war are almost always specious and riddled with fallacious reasoning. On a matter so grave, that should be unacceptable to the American people. Judging from the polls, it is.

go arm yourself with some real talking points, and keep fighting the noise machine.