Friday, October 11, 2002

That's just swell. On the same day Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for devoting decades of his life to the peaceful resolution of international conflicts, the US Senate grants President Bush broad power to attack Iraq because...uh... oh, that's right... because of a personal vendetta between world leaders, control of a natural resource we should have phased out decades ago and war is just good fun [and a heck of a lot easier than fixing the economy.] On a related topic, US military personnel and high ranking officials are granted immunity from the potential of war crimes tribunals at the Hague. God forbid our leaders be burdened with the nagging threat of taking responsibility for their actions. This looks like the first phase of adopting President Bush's U.S. Does Whatever It Wants resolution.

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