I can't begin to express all my feelings on this without overwhelming everyone's patience. This whole action is a collosal example of what happens when two pig-headed psychopathic leaders collide. In the case of a barroom brawl with no weapons, we can all just watch in amusment. In this case, they have between them the power to bring down every shred of humanity on the planet leaving the roaches to go: "Um, what wuz that? Oh, well."

One thing (among the myriad other things) that occurs to me is: how are so many people who profess to so fervently value and defend the lives of the fetus-people able to completely deny the "right to live" of the millions of Iraqui people--regular folks, men, women, and already-born children--who will be bombed into unrecognizable dust by American bombs with their (and my!) names on them?

And then, of course, how could we with any reason at all expect their survivors to be our friends after that? And do we really think that the rest of the Moslem world will not unify in hatred of us? And the list of "why it's wrong" goes on for several more pages...

Good gawd, y'all. I hope and pray for all of you, my fellow musicians and cherished friends that I am totally wrong in my fear of the war itself and the horrible aftermath. We still have many songs to sing, and beers to drink. And I have never even met most of you! But this is the worst war scenario that humans have ever known given the ferocity of the players and the technology available. And nothing any of us can do right now can change any of that. If there be a God or God council, now would be a swell time for some intervention.

Peace.