In Kat's defense, I will observe that I believe a policy that is willfully, disastrously wrong may fairly be characterized as evil.

Since the "leaders" (not just Bush, but Cheney, Rove, et al.) in Washington took us into the invasion of Iraq with premises (WMDs, Iraq behind 9/11) that were false, that their own intelligence organization had given them every reason to know were false, and further since a highly placed member of the administration's pre-inauguration planning team says that even from the earliest days (and maybe even before assuming office, I forget) and thus of course long before 9/11, the intention was to invade Iraq, I say that constitutes willfulness.

As to the "disastrously", I don't think I even need to justify that conclusion.

quod erat demonstrandum

Dave Oesterreich