Perhaps my sarcasm is a little obscure sometimes. I've been reading for weeks in this very forum that there will be no news coverage of the protests, the media is bought and paid for by huge global conglomerates of evil corporates murderers, and the protesters are going to be spirited out of their homes in the middle of the night and placed in concentration camps or worse and and blah blah blah. I'm not seeing all this oppression everybody's whining about. Most of what I see from the media and the Hollywood elite is rabidly anti-war. That's OK, I'm anti-war, too. I just don't think it's wise to let the world know that we're unwilling to use force, ever, for anything.

I also think it shows Saddam and any other actual despot (not the fantasy despot most of you so desperately would like to believe George W. Bush is) that we in the free world don't have the WILL to oppose them. In this forum I've seen very little obloquy against Saddam Hussein that even comes close to the invective heaped on George W. Bush. You'd think with all you dissenters being locked up in dank and dismal cells in the bowels of some secret CIA prison, maybe that would slow down a bit.

But here you brave souls are, risking the wrath of your evil government's jack-booted thugs with every post.