A Great Essay that I’ll suggest to most everyone today (look, I just did).

The President of the United States is a buffoon, an idiot, a man barely able to speak the English language. His vice president is a little-seen, widely despised enigma and his chief military advisor a wild-eyed warmonger. Only his Secretary of State offers any hope of redemption, for he at least is a reasonable, well-educated man, a man most thought would have made a far, far better choice for Chief Executive.
We must face the fact that we had no business forcing this unjust war on a people who simply want to be left alone. It has damaged our international relationships beyond any measure, and has proven to be illegal, immoral and nothing less than a monumental mistake that will take generations to rectify. We can never hope to subdue and remake an entire nation of millions. All we will do is alienate them further. So we must bring this war to an immediate end, and make a solemn promise to history that we will never launch another war of aggression and preemption again, so help us God.
So spoke the American press. The time was the summer of 1864.

Wow. The essay’s quite the endurance piece, but definitely worth a read.

It was very good.

I'll admit that I support the war. Hell I think the world would be a much safer place if the US/UK military went right and left and cleared out Syria and Iran, then got on some boats and went to North Korea.

I don't support the Palestinian cause for the same reason, thier answer to negotiations is to blow up buses.

War is bad, wrong, unfair but so is life. I've not been on the front lines in Kosovo, but I've fought my own Civil War against cancer since 1980. Getting cancer at age 7 wasn't fair. The treatments weren't fair. The side effects weren't fair.

But sometimes unfair things have to happen so things are better down the road.

If the US accidently kills 10,000 Iraqis in 2003, that will be 1/5th of the people that died from Saddam's reigme on average since 1980.

The discovery of the full Oil For Food warehouses in Basra pretty much toss out the old argument that the US was starving the people of Iraq.

Sorry if I ranted, I've got a cold.

Oops "If the US accidently kills 10,000 Iraqis in 2003, that will be 1/5th of the people that died from Saddam's reigme on average since 1980."

I mean that if 1 million civies have died since 1980, that'd be 1/5th of the average annual deaths.