I should emphasize that I am not disputing the universal assessment that Iraq has sponsored terrorist groups and engaged in acts of terrorism itself. I should also note that, as my Slate colleague William Saletan observed, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan revealed the regime's terrorist nature when he said, "We will use any means to kill our enemy in our land, and we will follow the enemy into its land." If Iraqis do indeed execute Ramadan's warning and attack civilians in the United States or Britain, that would constitute terrorism. (Attacks on military facilities, however, could be interpreted as acts of war in the same way that U.S. air strikes on the Iraqi defense ministry constitute an act of war, not of terrorism.)