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I've been reading Maureen Dowd's book, "Bushworld: Enter at your own risk", for the past few days. She's quite a good writer. It is also interesting to see what she has to say. I gather that many of these are editorials she actually wrote for the New York Times. I'm only fourty pages into it, though, so we'll see how it progresses from here.

The Gallup Polls show Bush in the lead, in a once-again likely republican biased poll. I think more democrats will turn out this year than in previous ones, however. Such close races are making the votes count more than ever.

In

2004_elections, someone has posted about the economic successes of the defense industry. I recommend you take a look at it, for this was the real underlying reason we are currently at war.

The day I know that a war is justified is the day an elected official who doesn't stand to gain financially from the decision decides that war is necessary.

Goodness. Only two weeks away from the big election day.

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My litmus test over when a war is justified is when those who decide to go to war are willing to send their own children to fight and die for it.

I don't think that's a good test, per se. I don't think many parents are willing to send their children off to die, even if it is a just war. That decision, really should be left to the individual putting their neck on the line, anyway.

But I when it comes to going to war, it's a game of follow the money. When there is poor justification for a war on honorable grounds, it is not just about neocon ideologies, it's money and power.

I'm a big fan of Maureen Dowd. The woman has directed some lovely, lovely snark at one of my personal bugaboos, Newt Gingrich.

I can see why Newt is bugaboo-worthy. Blech.