Doug - I actually doubt that anyone will benefit from a war with Iraq (barring a few arms dealers and corporate CEO's). That doesn't mean that certain people in Washington don't think they will benefit from it, however. I believe they are wrong in that assumption. It will be one further step down the slippery road of hubris and moral decline for the Empire, and will bear bitter fruit, both here in North America and in faraway places. It will increase fear, hatred, and reprisal. There will be more suicide attackers, and less hope for the already despairing people in many places where most people cannot afford VCR's, computers or cell phones. There will be more denial and paranoia in the land of the consumer, the couch potatoe, and the armchair patriot who imagines the Empire is protecting him. It is not. It is protecting only a few very rich people whom you and I will never even meet or talk to.

Most people, including you and me, are good people at heart...and they deserve better than this.

- LH