My previous post describes how disgusted I am with the ability of the human observer to excuse ANYTHING, even the most brutal, inexcusable horrors, as a neccessary means to an end; or else, to dismiss the possibility altogether. My disgust about this history leads me right back to Iraq and our business there today. The premise is an outright falsehood, and the result is a human tragedy that in some ways exceeds the Tsunami tragedy, not becuase of comparing lives lost, but because Iraq is a result of humans inflicting injustice upon other humans for selfish reasons, and the Tsunami, certainly as big a tragedy in terms of human life, is a result of nature (even there, who knows the extent to which this is a result global climate change due to irresponsible acts of industrial humans?) With Iraq, and the ensuing chaos caused by the invasion, we not only wiped out tens of thousands innocents, we probably paved the way for even more intense Muslim resentment and hatred, effectively cancelling out any possible “defense” this war supposedly had against terrorism (and of which we have found no evidence of ties — and yet most Bush supporters still BELIEVE that Iraq had somethign to do with 9/11).