McGrath:

Colonial? I must demur, sir. I do not believe in premeditated expeditionary warfare, but I do believe that the nation of Iraq would be well served by learning the fine art of representative government and shedding their dictatorship. Nothing colonial about it.   The notional issue of WMD is not a colonial issue either. It is a possible serious life-threatening factor to unknown millions of souls around the planet -- perhaps Kurds, perhaps yanks. But the problem is that the facts are not known. Those that are asserted as known are not put on the public record. That makes it problematic. Absent those facts the posturing of military might is murderous.

There is no question about the profile of the dictator. He's as sensible a leader as Adolph Hitler was. I have no idea whether he is as massive a threat militarily as Bushwah claims, and that is why I am so pissed at our Resident. I dislike not being trusted as a citizen by what appears to be a dyslexic, subliterate, historically-ignorant power clique.

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