I'd much sooner Stalin had been dumped in 1945 too. But going to war to achieve it would have been too high a price.

It was you, Gareth, who started talking about "apologists". I quite agree that it's ridiculous to call you a Bush apologist.

But since I wouldn't myself be in favour of a war to overthrow Bush, does that mean it'd be fair to call me one?

An opponent of an illegal war is not an apologist for the regime targetted, any more than an opponent of a lynch mob would be an apologist for a child murderer, for example.