In reply to Who is Luc Devroye:
@oldnick:
What the hell is in your Kool-Aid?
It's true he didn't really have UN permission to invade Iraq. And, I suppose he could have waited to see if Afghanistan's offer to subject Osama bin Laden to an Islamic trial was genuine or useful; after all, we might not like the Taliban, but they were the government of Afghanistan, and one is supposed to respect the sovereignity of national governments.
However, several thousand innocent Americans were killed out of the blue.
Many Americans did favor, seriously or not, the simple visceral response of using America's thermonuclear might to turn Afghanistan into a lake... or to wipe Islam from the face of the Earth. That kind of thing didn't happen.
So I'm just using a different value of "compared to what" than liberals might, reminding them that while Bush may have fallen short of their hopes, he still remained well within the realm of conventional actions, and in no way approached their worst fears.