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I'm a bit confused by the appeal to authority you are making, Host. Surely, you don't believe that the majority of Colonels or of State Department officials oppose the war? If your argument against the Bush administration rests on their inside knowledge and authority, it would only make sense for you to reverse your position, as Ann Wright is in the extreme minority in her views. I'm sure she is a wonderful person, but she is no more knowledgable or trustworthy than the next State Department employee. And if the authority of one is worth a Godwin's Law-violating post like this, isn't the authority of the hundreds who hold the opposite view just that much more convincing?
You also gracelessly dodged Toaster126's criticism of your OP, a criticism that I level against you as well. Your comparison of the death toll incurred so far in the war to democratize Iraq and the 12 million killed in Nazi death factories is... foolish, to make a tremendous understatement. I think it's time for you to do some soul searching: your criticisms of the Bush administration are becoming increasingly nonsensical and irrational, as is evidenced conclusively by your outlandish analogy between the American public and complacent Nazi citizens.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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