[mburbank]

"Look up Kosovo. "

I thought that at the time, and it's one of the many reasons I really hate Clinton, although it's nowhere near as aggregious of his bombing a phramecuitical company in the Sudan and never admitting that the intel he used sucked ass. Not quite as much ass as the forged Nigerian documents, mind you, but in the right ballpark.

However... If one wants to see the principle cause of the Kosovo war the diversion of attention, I'd have to say, considering the HIGHLY tenous connection between 9/11 and Ira that the Iraq war was intentionally crafted to draw your attention away from what a crass bumbling fuck up of a president W is.

"Wouldn't spending billions of dollars to save lives be considered humane?"
That's a specious argument. You could have saved way more and been way more 'humane' by not dropping any bombs at all. You're still defining humane as 'Not as hideously grim as it could have been.' That's nuts. We could have gone into Iraq and slowly tortuted each individual citizen to death. Does that mean we should get a nobel peace prize for our conduct of the war?

I don't see you as being a sheep over all. I see you being a sheep about this. I think this war was as big a dog and pony show as I've ever seen. I think the adminsitration, (and believe me, there are people in it I hate WAY more than Bush) was so certain they were right they threw a lot of horseshit on the table believing when happy smiling Iraqui turned over the fully intact WMD program, no one would go back and look at what bulsshit the 'evidence' was. I'm betting there a whole Imelda Marcos closet of shoes left to drop on this.