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I’m going to try to put this subject to bed — at least for a while. I’ve decided to attend the White House event because I’m curious, because I can sing for W and still feel the way I do about the man, his war and his Administration, and because I can bring Lily with me. I’m no longer as angry as I was at the stupidity of the adventure because the cost in human life and suffering (so far) has been near the lower end of the range of possibility. So far as that goes, as I wrote a few weeks ago, I still feel like Grandfather in Peter in the Wolf, skulking at the rear of Peter’s victory procession and mumbling, “Yes, but what if Peter had not caught the wolf? What then?” But I still have a list of gripes against the man, the war, and the Administration, and I’m going to write them down here once again, and then get on with my life: Bait and Switch Unilateral, pre-emptive military force to eliminate a threat against a nation’s security is much easier to justify than the use of force ...