Ab Fab, Wesley

Oops!...I did it again

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"All aboard"
--Oops, I did It Again, Britney Spears


Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right
--Three Birds, Bob Marley
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A double-header. Twice in one week--from the right and the left--Ranger has been vindicated.

First it was Newt hopping on board with the PWOT © [Phony War on Terror], and today it is Wesley Clark defining a terrorist as a criminal and not a combatant ("Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers.") As we say in the South, we're in hog heaven.

Ranger has been saying this for years, but thanks to Wesley's explanatory editorial in the New York Times (he has the name cachet), more folks will now understand this, too. Perhaps, they will even become angry that this administration has constructed an illegal shadow category a la Stalin, in which to place people who are really criminals or fighters.

The insanity of this particular aspect of the Iraq Circus -- the nomenclature problem -- should be ended. Those in power will have one less tool with which to whip Americans into a frenzy of confusion. Adversaries will be seen for what they are, and praise be to Jefferson and Hamilton, and every other thinking legislator who followed, we have a Constitution and laws to deal with criminals and POWs.

Ranger is considering the coalition which might be formed from among this current triumvirate.

Hmmm. . .we could call on Ross Perot for some pointers. . .

--Lisa