I'm not going to tell you you're wrong, Herring, but a lot of those children were killed via our own sanctions. And a decent hunk of that rape, torture, etc. occurred with the implicit support of the good old U S of A. Further, if we're so concerned about human rights violations, why the push for chummy relations with China? Why the continued (and American tax-subsidized) atrocities in Saipan? Etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Shit happens, of course, and mistakes are made. What chaps my hide with this war is that it's being fed to the public as a confrontation of "good" vs. "evil" with no mention of the history involved, and especially our part in it. This war is not about human rights, and it isn't about a threat to our nation. Saddam needs to go, absolutely, and this is certainly the most positive thing Bush has undertaken as president. But anyone with an eleventh-grade grasp of history knows the administration is being disingenuous (at best) with the party line. I dislike being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils.