[Urbane Guerrilla]

Boy, are you standing everything on its head and wrong-end-to, Bruce. You'd no more happily live under the misrule of a dictatorship than I would, and where is your understanding of the Baghdad taxi driver who quietly told a reporter before the invasion, and I quote: "If the Americans don't come, I'll kill myself."

I think that counts for something. Every Iraqi knew and still knows it would take a major invasion to shift Saddam and end his dark night. Note there is no insurgent flying the Ba'ath flag, though this could well be a ruse on the part of some Sunni factions. Still, too much of Iraq doesn't want the bad old Ba'ath dictatorship's days to return for it ever to be managed, it seems to me.

I understand that I am among the saviors, and telling me I'm a bully can't make me other than a savior. Sorry. Fighting battles of liberation is hardly bullying, but more the effective solution to bullying, wouldn't you think? Why would you think otherwise? You do not explain this; you merely call names. That's not arguing your point, but further evidence that you either can't find your own point or that you are wholly lacking one. This must be frustrating.

You clearly have nil understanding just how nasty a nondemocratic social order is, if you're going to compare it to a rather grubby neighbor, a PTA meeting, or a church congregation. It's wrong to trivialize this. Jeez, I thought we got this sorted back in WW2 when we noted that the Nazi Party wasn't much comparable to Republican or Democratic membership back here in CONUS. Had to remind a few people of that, we did.

Given your fondness for leaving oppressors to oppress -- unconscionable, all things considered, no? -- do you really think yourself an enlightened being? Let's just say it's wide open to doubt, Bruce. You're tolerating an incredible amount of injustice, and refusing to see the value of administering justice to those needing it meted out, and for those who have suffered and suffer yet in the power squabble.