so i just want to remind you of the basic argument, now so profusely illustrated as to be obviously irrefutable. there were two major justifications for invading iraq: eliminating wmds and lending a helping hand to the oppressed. north korea shows exactly how, say, dick cheney or john bolton respond to a country with actual nuclear weapons: dude: let's assemble a coalition and enter into multilateral negotiations. if they had thought iraq had the weapons, they'd still be all blah blah blah yackety smackety today. darfur shows exactly how they respond to actual genocide, what they do when true monsters of oppression are in the middle of slaughtering their people: yapyapyap. both these situations, among others, were in full flower at the moment they started shocking and awing those poor suckers in iraq. they're cowards and hypocrites. that's not merely my opinion: it's theirs. they shove that shit in your face every day all day. they could not be clearer about it.