Now for something a tad more intellectually stimulating--not that that wasn't stimulating, but--ugh, never mind.

William Safire hit the nail on the head AGAIN with his op-ed piece on Saddam Hussein and the war. Read it! It will make you think straight. He sure deserved that Pullitzer. =)

Here's an excerpt for you lazy fools out there:

How should we counter Saddam's strategy of using killers in civilian clothes to enforce resistance, and his tactic of horrifying television viewers in the U.S. by inviting and inflicting civilian deaths? How do we overcome the terrorized Iraqi population's fear of an outcome in which Saddam again snatches survival and revival from the jaws of defeat?

The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.

We have not yet done so with imprecise calls for "regime change." Indeed, in hopes of getting Iraqi troops to lay down arms as the war began, we offered "articles of capitulation." Instead, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, meeting today, should emulate their World War II predecessors. They should pre-empt proposals for bombing halts and armistices with a ringing statement about the only way to end the war: by unconditional surrender.

Change the leaflets and broadcasts. No talks about terms; no amnesties for paramilitary killers; no deals on exile for torturers. Surrender, plain and simple.

Pledge that Saddam's terrorists — now blocking the distribution of food and medicine — will suffer for such atrocities. Assure Iraqis that Saddam's Baathist murderers of Iraqi civilians will face certain retribution.

Guarantee that those who rise against Saddam will not only be protected from his thugs now, but also honored later by the liberating force and by the free Iraqi officials certain to take over.