Don't Beat Around the Bush!

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A blast yesterday killed twenty-eight people in Iraq. Routine reports of this kind of death since the beginning of this unjustified war, reminded me of the following dialog from Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

Anakin Skywalker: Sometimes I wonder what's happening to the Jedi Order. I think this war is destroying the principles of the Republic.

Padmé Amidala: Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side?

Anakin Skywalker: What do you mean?

Padmé Amidala: What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?

Anakin Skywalker: I don't believe that, and you're sounding like a Separatist.

Padmé Amidala: What this war represents is a failure to listen. Now you're closer to the Chancellor than anyone, please, ask him to stop the fighting and let the diplomacy resume.

Anakin Skywalker: Don't ask me to do that.

Of course, I am not supporting terrorists in Iraq or any kind of terrorism.  Answer to the question "who is a terrorist?" is merely a point of view.  How do we define the word "terrorist"?  If a person who caused more than million deaths for no good reason is not a terrorist, who is?  Mr. Bush's record is on par with that of Pol Pot.  It is about time for the US to unequivocally (and officially) admit to the world, "(we) our ex-president made a terrible mistake in Iraq and caused grief to millions here in this country and abroad", and hand over President George W. Bush to the International Court of Justice for his war crimes.  On a second thought, may be not.  After all, George Washington's cherry tree story is a myth.  We don't take morals from urban legends.  Do we?