Old Guy:

Oh, come on. Those two principles are not contradictory but they could be under special circumstances, especially if the manager in charge of interpreting them was a s dumb as a rock.

But that would not be the case as you describe it.

As for your man Bush -- he seriously compromised the security of the United States because he just couldn't wait to use his new troops, could he. How many lives could he have saved finding another course of action to effect regime change?

Or perhaps human lives are not the senior good in your world?

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