True enough, it's good to see happy people. I don't know how that balances against that little boy with his arms blown off and his family wiped out, or busloads of women and children wiped out. Is it only one thousand civilians killed outright?

But remember the argument that illegal violence is justified because it can produce good results, and that the people killed by carrying out bombings are a worthwhile sacrifice, is the argument that is used by terrorists to justify their activities.

And the only argument ever made for this war having any legality at all was that it was necessary because Saddam had stocks of weapons of mass destruction, and there was no other way of getting rid of them other than aborting the inpection process and going immediately to war.

Today I saw a suggestion that, if there are any chemical and bioogucal weapons still around in Iraq, they are likely to be in the hands of people who are even more likely to be ready to pass them over to Al Qaida style people.