Seymour Hersh asks the right questions and bring out the cold, stark problems.

>"In Washington, you can’t expect any rationality. I don’t know if he’s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn’t do it, or because it’s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program.” Hersh hinted that the responsibility for the invasion of Iraq lies with eight or nine members of the administration who have a “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.’s post-September 11 foreign policy. “You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants.”

Sad, but true. We've become spineless in the face of criticism masquerading as patriotism from those who's only encounter with war is the increase in their bank accounts.