Holding Our Noses -- Kristof

I haven't written about Iraq lately because, frankly, it felt like shooting fish in a barrel.

It was sporting to write columns opposing the war back in January, when the White House was conjuring enough Iraqi anthrax "to kill several million people," as well as hordes of cheering Iraqis casting flowers on our soldiers. These days, with that anthrax as elusive as Saddam himself, with the people we've liberated busy killing us, with the bill for Iraq coming in at $90,000 a minute — well, criticizing the war just seems too easy, like aiming a bomb at Bambi.

So I won't do it.

In any case, the real question that confronts us now is not whether invading Iraq was the height of hubris, but this: Given that we are there, how do we make the best of it?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/opinion/15KRIS.html

Why can't he bring himself to say "height of stupidity"?

I just read another headline in my daily rag that the Bushistas just raised another $49 million dollars. Let the fat cat bastards who are profitting off of Bush's Folley foot the bill. Or isn't the ROI high enough?