This was so consistent with my views that I thought it worth copying some of the text. I mean, all the fervor about patriotism and "never forget 9/11" and "Osama's enemy #1" seems to have been channelled into "Wham-Bam-Saddam's a bad guy." Yo, I've got an idea. Let's take care of the first gig (the one leading to "Orange Alerts") before moving onto your family vendetta, 'k?
"Let’s look back for a minute at yet another week of orange alerts and mad trips to Wal-Mart for transistor radios and gallon jugs of water. Osama bin Laden, the mass murderer our president vowed to capture "dead or alive," unleashed a chilling taped message, letting us know he’s still very much alive and that he wants us all dead—particularly on the occasion of our upcoming takeover of Baghdad. And the Bush administration’s reaction, via the mouth of the suddenly-everywhere Colin Powell, was: See, we told you Saddam Hussein is public enemy number one.

Huh?... Here we are, scrambling to secure potassium iodide tablets and making emergency contingency plans with loved ones because former Al Qaeda operatives in custody have supposedly warned of chemical, biological or nuclear attacks and because Osama has called for suicide missions. And yet, we strangely didn’t hear our cowboy President say, "We’ve just got to round up that monstrous evildoer once and for all!"

No, the Bushies’ response was to send 20,000 more troops to the Persian Gulf for the invasion of Iraq while telegraphing their weekly slam of France and Germany as lily-livered. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld keeps implying that we saved their "Old Europe" asses in two wars and now the ingrates are wimping out on us—even though both countries, and Germany in particular, have done more to crack the global networks of Muslim fundamentalist terrorists, including Al Qaeda and certainly within the past two weeks, than has John Ashcroft’s Justice Department.

But Qaeda shmaeda—it’s Iraq or bust!"