You can find everything out there. Flat earth, man didn't land on the moon, and so on.

Jerry Springer delighted in having people on his show that would get upset over things like this.

AND, having said that, there's the old saying that "it's an ill wind that blows no good".

Every situation has many aspects, larger, smaller, and in between. Some people don't mind the human tragedy of Iraq because of a belief in a larger good. Others think it's not worth the cost in treasure, lives, and misery. I believe you're one of those.

I would really hope you can now also sympathize with the loss of life due, not to an "Act of God", but to an Act of Bush, that is Iraq. Those people have souls, dreams, desires too. Children, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers.

Some folks say that the destruction of Japan's factories was a good thing, allowing them to build new ones. And the loss in lives was enormous. Much larger than the tsunamis.

Exactly analogous, though I suspect you'd be on the "it's a good thing" there, too.

So, there are facets to everything. And picking one is unfair to the entire situation.

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