He should be charged and tried and as good as dead, but a little better. The world's greatest doctors should find a way to keep him alive another 3,000 years or so, while our HMOs spare the rest of us such a fate.

The good reason for war in Iraq was that yes he is a bad man. America can stand and hold some truths to be self-evident, and not be ashamed, and not shame those who have to carry out the orders. That would be the good part, at least in theory.

   Some people have tried so hard in all this to do real good. Think of that.