Let's Keep it Honest

The continued anti-Bush and anti-military bias in the MSM keeps me on the edge of incredulity. The Tibetan Buddhists have a saying I like very much- an aversion is just as bad as an addiction. I'm shocked at how otherwise intelligent people become frothing at the mouth, rabid dogs when it comes to President Bush. It's become so bad that even things that have very little to do with the President, such as the military, suffer due to an association.

I will sit and debate anyone on the topic of the Iraq War but I've found that most of the people I've talked are speaking from emotion and not knowledge. When asked about the legality, I question was international justice is if there even is such a thing. When asked about the morality of the war, I bring up the concept of jus ad bellum and jus in bello. People love to have opinions about this though their usual understanding of IR is worse than a first year college student. I don't see them having the same type of conversation with an oncologist and IR is an infinitely harder topic than medicine.

But all that is not the issue. What with the almost near blackout on the MSM about the declassified reports of WMD finds in Iraq? I've always maintained that there were WMD in Iraq even when we didn't find any. Having looked for things, I know how easy it is to hide something in a country the size of Iraq. There are more reports to come and I hope this gives everyone pause. How can we, who aren't in Iraq, speak with such authority about the situation in Iraq? We don't know what's going on and that's the way it should be. What would your average citizen do with that information anyway? We were going to have to deal with Saddam sooner or later. And dealing with him before he possessed nuclear weapons is certainly smarter though more morally grey to some. Kim Jong Ill? That's what happens when you play this game poorly. You are forced to deal with that madman.