Teribus:

From what I know, most of what you say is public record. The man (Saddam) is an evil blight on the landscape.

My greatest objection to the situation portrayed by Bush is that he seems determined to go to war with the nation of Iraq, whether other means will serve or not. To my mind that sort of obsessive focus is unhealthy. He is also willing to launch a military preemptive attack at the first opportunity. He is contributing to a problem of deranged forve and violence by offering more deranged force and violence. Perhaps this does not trouble you. It troubles the hell out of me.

Saddam troubles me too. If I was smart enough to advise nations on a better course of events, I would. But my sense is that these leaders, and the nations that they represent, are deeply entrenched in a massive and monstrous dramatization which has a lot of onertia to it.