Re: Beating a dead horse.
"The cops can, and often have, shot someone for waving a gun around, looking like he might shoot someone with it, or even looking like he was about to pull a hidden one out"
yeah, tom, bet we ain't the cops here, we have no legal authority to act as one and no moral justification for trying to do so. Its bogus.
"Maybe this is carrying the analogy too far. "
Ahh, the dead horse is beatenone more time for good measure...
So, what does this make Blix? The stupid cracker policeman? And Bush, he must be like the vigilante out for justice... And Powell must be calvary, and saddam the evil old injun...
No, this horse was dead in the first place. We all deserve at least one really baaaad metaphor..
Davin L.