2006-05-26 06:10:01 AM Abelian Groupie: Well I guess it would be poetic justice of a sort. Come on, look me in the eyes and tell me you haven't once thought it would, in a way, be kind of neat if Bush or Blair paid a visit to Iraq and was assassinated by the insurgency?

2006-05-26 06:12:14 AM Abelian Groupie: I don't mean it would be a good thing, by the way. I know they are human beings and that they have families who would mourn them, and so on and so forth. I'm just saying... it appeals in an unemotional way, because it seems somewhat fitting a fate for them.

As a pro-war guy, let me provide some free advice to "the enemy" which is the anti-war camp.

When anti-war people wish death and/or injury on leaders who are known to be pro-war, what this does is forever alienate the issue of "blood lust" from the debate because it proves that some anti-war people have at least as much blood-lust as anybody else, perhaps even more of it, and have no misgivings about actually embracing it. It proves that the anti-war faction has been insincere about its motives. It demonstrates that the "peace at any price" crowd, in fact, doesn't really want peace. Or that if they do, they define peace the way the old-time soviets defined it -- an end, not only to fighting, but to any dissent whatsoever, after our system of government gets everything it wants.

But I do hope the anti-war people make fun of me and ignore what I have to say here. Whenever they open their big mouths and start wishing death on people, it highlights the problems with their cause. I particularly appreciate it when they're caught celebrating so-and-so-many deaths of soldiers in Iraq, slander the entire military for the actions of a few at Abu Ghraib, and make up stories about executing civilians. Give these folks enough rope, they will hang themselves, as Mr. Galloway has repeatedly shown.