On Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Representative Charles Eaton made his case in the House for why the United States should enter World War II. "Mr. Speaker," he began, "yesterday against the roar of Japanese cannon in Hawaii, our American people heard a trumpet call; a call to unity; a call to courage; a call to determination once and for all to wipe off of the earth this accursed monster of tyranny and slavery which is casting its black shadow over the hearts and homes of every land."
Last year, Senator Sam Brownback made the case for war in Iraq this way: "And if we don't go at Iraq, that our effort in the war on terrorism dwindles down into an intelligence operation. We go at Iraq and it says to countries that support terrorists, there remain six in the world that are as our definition state sponsors of terrorists, you say to those countries: We are serious...
