] I know that the only truly powerful country on the planet
] is continuing to manufacture the perilous,
] conscience-stunting myth that technology can make war
] relatively safe. Indeed, we are so delusional on this
] subject that we believe that bombing the shit out of the
] Iraqis is a humanitarian act. This is a continuation of
] the same national system of denial that we began to
] construct during Gulf War I. Ask a knowledgeable American
] how many people died in that conflict and you will
] probably be told that the death toll was somewhere around
] 150.

JPB offers a (mostly) reasonable critique