The sad truth is they are all members of the Bureaucrat Party. This makes it hard to expect responsible action from them. If Bush believes that Saddam's threat is great enough to wartrant preemptive initiation of hostilities -- an incredibly risky thing to do -- he bloody well should lay out why he believes it. The fact that he does not means, to me, that he believes himself possessed of some kind of high privelege or, worse, some sort of superiority which goes deeply against my grain when it comes to deciding on momentous issues such as dividing the world by unsubstantiated war-mongering.

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