… only Pletka admits she may have been mistaken in a key assumption — that “all who year for freedom, once free, would use it well” — an assumption, incidentally, that I don’t think was in any event central to her support for the war.

Freedom?! Freedom was watching CNN footage from two weeks before the invasion, where people in the background were buying — far, far freer than I can in the USA — AK-47’s and crates of ammo in an open street bazaar in Baghdad. The “dictatorship” required no paperwork to buy all the guns and ammo one could want.

Freedom meant after the invasion, when occupied Iraqis in a bombed or shelled township started to restore their own electricity and water they were prevented by armed U.S. soldiers because it was not approved by the U.S.’s Provisional Authority who were waiting for Halliburton contractors to do the job — I am sure they never showed, though I have no doubt they were paid well.

Keep reading and reporting on the Neocon’s crap for us. Thank god I can read you instead of them. I am worried about the long term effects of Neocon crap on your brain, however. Beer or single malt may help. ;-)

We sent thousand-plane raids to firebomb German cities which created more damage and casualties than the Hiroshima bomb. I think we would have preferred to risk one plane to do the same damage had the bomb been available.