It is much easier to contemplate that acts of extreme violence against persons is justified, than they might be the act of insanity made manifest.

Powell's presentation at the United Nations, the consummation of all the pro-WMD intell the Administration had, was a bag of hot air, and almost everyone who saw it, saw through it. Huge conclusions being leapt to on little evidence (speaking of believing what one wished to rather than the facts.)

There is an enemy afoot in the world, of that 9/11 left no doubt, and one who must needs be stopped as fast and as cold as can be done.

The insanity enters in when that observation is adulterated by choosing wrong targets, operating on false data, and causing wrongful death.

Wrongful death, as Bush has precipitated thousands of times against his own people and the innocent bystanders in Iraq, is -- to my mind -- as big a crime as one individual can perpetuate against another whether the perpetrator is the dictator of Iraq or the President of the United States.

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