2) What's the difference between our attack on Iraq and the "terrorist" attack on 9-11? Both actions were pre-emptive, both actions were spurred by a fear of what would happen if no action was taken, the only difference is that the U.S. had the ability to follow through.
I don't know, let's, say, call it the intentional targetting of a massive civilian population with as much musterable force as possible versus the intentional exclusion of non-combatants from casualty to the maximum plausible extent of current military technology.

You know.

To start with.