Since we're going to hell anyway, it helps to have a President who knows the way.

Through Bob Somerby, we are directed to a truly crapulent column by someone called Brian McGrory in the Boston Globe. Sample this:

So he's risking American and Iraqi lives. He's risking the economy of the United States. And he's risking his entire presidency on a cause that large swaths of his country can't quite comprehend.

I don't necessarily agree with him. My stomach turns at the thought of the inevitable CNN footage of missiles screaming toward Baghdad in the dark of an unfortunate night, live people, some of them innocents, waiting on the other end.

And yet, there's something uniquely, unusually admirable about the man. Bush truly believes in the depths of his heart and the corners of his soul that what he is doing is just. Now, on the eve of battle, the rest of the country can only hope that the president it elected will somehow, some way, get it right.

First go read the column here, then watch Somerby destroy it here as well as linking to McGrory's interesting takes on politicians he doesn't like.