[mburbank]

I agree no one can stop Bush now, and really no one ever could, though our spineless congress could have slowed him down a day or two. And yes, absolutely, less deaths are a favorable scenario.

But if the early stages of this are 'easy', if it costs us nothing, if the media is succsesfully leashed so that american viewers again believe war is a video game, I honestly don't think it ends there. I think the day we secure Iraq is the same day 'negotiations' on Iran begin.

Naldo can step up and asdk if I'm suggesting I would like to trade american lives for a future outcome, but that's facetious. I don't want anyone to die.

The fact that people will, that this is a fait accompli and that I'm left to cower before a bully and pray for a broken nose instead of a crushed ribcage only underscores the blind arrogance of W.'s power.

If I believed in an active God I would pray that W and Hussein and Chenney be transported to the front lines where they can see what 5their decisions amount to.