I have to add that the kind of shallow, carefree defense of a decision to go to war -- an action ruining thousands of lives -- is pretty pathetic and indefensible. But it is nowhere near as bad as the slaphappy, superficial and irresponsible decision itself. The kind of stupidity which is inherent in the process BB describes above is indefensible in public office and goes well past the pale into criminality.

What crime? Murder, premeditated. The Bush machine decided after 9-11 to use it as an opportunity to take down Saddam Hussein. They did everything they could to make a rationale up that the nation would swallow. But ther eis no such rationale and the whole thing stinks like anschluss or other illegal acts of violence thinly disguised as statesmanship.

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