Little Hawk, I find some of your reasoning quite convincing, sometimes, but, sometimes it seems quite a stretch, as above. I do not believe that Bush and co. are the masters of public opinion that you imply, I don't believe Bush's bumbling ineptitude masks a mind like a steel trap. I think you fall into that idea that these people actually control everything, when they really only play their part, and I recomend you read War And Peace, and Karl Popper. If there weren't some valid reasons for action, some fairly reasonable fears mixed into it, Bush could never have launched a war.

I don't believe that all the dangers of inaction were completely imaginary, just because they don't touch me where I live. The war may well be quite wrong, even in the compromised, practical sense in which a war might be considered the right thing. But it isn't wrong like Hitler, it's actually quite different.

Your view of people who support the war is a cartoon, and though it does sound a bit like Bush's ill-chosen and potentially disasterous terms, it doesn't sound much like the people I know who do support the war.