There's no turning back now it seems, murder is the plan. Maybe I'm crazy, but I really believe that killing is wrong and should be avoided at all costs. Say it with whatever religion or pacifist philosophy you want, but murder is wrong… which means no offensive wars. Would I fight to protect “my country” from invasion? Of course. But I wouldn't fight in an illegal war of aggression, and that's what this is, and it shocks me that any civilized person would be willing to take part.
I'm very sad that the American people are about to be bankrupted over this and have their civil rights eroded even more. I'm very sorry that their fear has allowed evil men to subvert America. I'm very sad that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of innocent Iraqis are about to be brutally slaughtered (say what you want about Saddam's “evil”, but the people themselves are no more at fault than the people who were murdered in New York — victims of religious fanatics, big businesses, and governments that don't care about them). I'm very sad that potentially tens of thousands of US, British, and other Western troops are going to die horribly and alone, away from their homes, many believing misguidedly that they're improving the world.
It's all very sad.
Delta Force has been sent in with orders to execute Saddam Hussein. The US has made it clear that under no circumstances do they want him to stand trial, since in an impartial trial, they fear that the world could rally around him, especially once it's revealed (again) that the evidence against him is fraudulent and all charges are dismissed. Is he a brutal puppet dictator? Most definitely. Is he guilty of what the US is accusing him of and using to lauch this war? Most definitely not…
On a more pleasant note, the IM taskbar feature is definitely a go… The look/feel/functionality isn't totally set yet (the initial version will just be a message waiting indicator, but future versions will also notify you of buddy updates, forum posts, and all that jazz). Anyway, it'll go a little something like this:
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