Cynthia Tucker never lets me down

In her Saturday column, "War Hawks Show Callous Disregard for Working-Class Troops," Tucker takes apart the disingenuous arguments of the right wing about who is fighting in Iraq. But it is the last part of the column that is the best:

Their callousness about other people's children aside, it's not just Cheney and Bush whom I hold responsible for the deaths of more than 2,300 hundred Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. It's also men like Sen. John Kerry and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vietnam veterans who had seen young men die in combat. They knew better than to take the nation to war on the wings of a lie.

That they did was not only unjust; it was immoral.