I've got two cents, and here they are...

[mangosteen]

I think that, deep down in their souls, Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft believe that they are doing the right thing for the United States as a whole.

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Get thee beneath thy bridge

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

I know you're trolling.

However, I think Ashcroft is doing what he thinks is good for the country. God is good for the country...

The other two, well, there's the smart cunning one, and the stupid cunning one.

Nicolai

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I agree. I think they realize that they (and their friends) won't be affected by any retaliation, and can only benefit if it goes well.

I also feel that if we could get the transcript to Cheney's secret energy meetings we'd know a lot more.

Don't all jump on me at once

[claerwen.livejournal.com]

I feel pretty ambivalent about this, but I think maybe the least worst possible outcome, now we've got to this stage, is a UN resolution in favour of war, then war leading to the deposition of Saddam Hussein. I think that might be the best of a set of pretty lousy possibilities, at least for people in Iraq, who can presumably expect to continue to be killed, disappeared and tortured in their hundreds of thousands under a continuation of the current regime. And as Chris Lightfoot points out, at least if the US and allies manage to effect a regime change, they'll have to lift sanctions in order to make their alternative look as much as possible like it's working.