Borrowing a link from another thread, I invite your attention to this movie well worth seeing and a moment's reflection on whether these are images of necessary force or unnecessary force.

While this is of course a dramatization, it pinpoints very well the core reason for my personal disdain for George Bush and his fellow war-mongers. He (and his colleagues) have accrued great renown, wealth, visibililty and influence as a direct result of deciding to do what this images portray. They made those decisions individually. Above all, George Bush made an individual decision. The ethics of that decision are, IMHO, perverse, destructive and harmful.

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