By definition, ideal descriptions are ideal. Doh!

I would say it certainly does, apropros of your second question. If MCKinley had tried Bushian incursions on civil liberties during the Spansih American war he would have been impeached, Willie Randolph Hearst or no Willie Randolph Hearst, I suspect. Especially since Congress has not declared war in the present instance, merely abdicated its reserved right to do so in a pusillanimous "authority to use force" without bounds or limits, driven by a false scenario and panic-mongering by Rice, Cheney, Bush and their gang.

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