Tom Robbin's (he's an author), as well as the other Seattle elite, has spoken out against the war. Thank God. Where have you been Tom. The world has been waiting for you to say this:

Quite probably the worst thing about the inevitable and totally unjustifiable war with Iraq is that there’s no chance the U.S. might lose it. America is a young country, and intellectually, emotionally, and physically, it has been exhibiting all the characteristics of an adolescent bully, a pubescent punk who’s too big for his britches and too strong for his age. Someday, perhaps, we may grow out of our mindless, pimple-faced arrogance, but in the meantime, it might do us a ton of good to have our butts kicked. Unfortunately, like most of the targets we pick on, Iraq is much too weak to give us the thrashing our continuously overbearing behavior deserves, while Saddam is even less deserving of victory than Bush.

Don’t get me wrong—I don’t want American soldiers killed. But I don’t want Iraqis killed, either. I’m just not one of those people who believes that American lives are more valuable than the lives
of others.

Thanks for enlightening me Tom. You didn't get your ass kicked too much in High School, did you?

f the Bush administration actually tried to encourage the spread of theocratic terrorism, it couldn’t be going about it in a better way. What this administration betrays in its every statement is a terrifying ignorance of the history, the character, the culture of the region that they are about to invade. It leaves me feeling simply scared shitless.

I have zero belief in the idea that Iraq can somehow be reconstituted as a beacon of democracy in the Arab world. I mean, look at Afghanistan, and look at where we have left Afghanistan.

What scares me shitless Johnny is the fact that you seem to prefer the former Afghanistan to the present one. Put 'em back in burquas John? If this is the true intelligentsia of Seattle, I'll stay here in Jersey where we just do rational things like elect Senators illegally.