QUOTE: Norm, whose ability to get freshly worked up on this issue every day is really an inspiration to me--I should be so lucky as to be able to go out and argue like that everyday:
"This is the primary moral lie of the anti-war - in fact, anti-liberation - party: to deny that there were good regime-change reasons, or to let them count in practice for nothing. (The supporting empirical lie is to pretend that these reasons weren't part of the case as made at the time.) There are people who opposed the Iraq war in a way that could and can be respected - without denying the weight of the reasons on the other side, or trying to make out that the pro-war case was confected merely out of subterfuge and lies. But from the beginning their voices have been overwhelmed by the louder and more numerous voices of the subterfuge- and lie-sayers, themselves (as I have often suggested) unable to live comfortably with their own moral lie."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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