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confirming what we always knew to be the truth: all those liberal carpers can't really feel our pain. ("New research concludes that fish lack the capacity to feel pain.") br> -- Doc Watson /p>

Before the war, lots of lefties prefaced their cowardice with, "Of course Saddam is a brutal dictator, but under international law, what we are about to do is illegal."

After the war, they say they are glad to have him gone, but just disagree with how we did it. "Of course Saddam was a brutal dictator, but under international law, what we did was illegal".

So now I ask these people: Suppose Saddam Hussein turns up alive, and demands that under international law, what the U.S. did was completely illegal, and that the international community should restore him to power.

Would you agree that he should be restored?

p>It nicely forces them to do one of three things (1) Support the br> reinstallation of a brutal dictator, in the name of justice. (2) Admit that the U.S. was justified in what it did, or (3) claim that the U.S. was not justified in what it did, but that they like the result, and would not change it; in other words, that they are quite willing to do what they accuse President Bush of doing, ignoring international law to achieve desired ends. /p> p>So far the most common response is the "Oh-you-war-mongers-are-hopelessly-naive eye-roll, or a quick subject change. Haven't got an honest answer, or even an admission that the question is worth asking, in about 10 tries. br> -- Joseph Auchter /p>

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