I am not against Second Amendment rights, BB, and I am very much on the Left. I would never dream of comparing the invasion of Iraq to the sending of Federal troops into the South during the Civil Rights demonstrations... I compare it to the invasion of Poland in '39. Poland was not all that democractic at the time, but it was innocent of being any real threat to Germany, and it was massively attacked under false pretences by the German armed forces and government. Ordinary Germans (decent people on the whole) were mostly convinced that there had to be a good reason for it...

Mary? Really? Which decent people in particular? There are a great many decent people out there, after all...

Most people are decent people, I find. They deserve better leadership than they are getting.