The lesser angels of my nature are wanting to cry out that stuff like this, is enough to make me think – however fleeting and regrettably – that if the “neo-conservatives” of this country were wiped out to a man, that this would have been a much better nation for it.

However, as a Christian, I have to fight against saying that I agree with that urge.

Frank Gaffney, former Assistant Defense Secretary and now with the “Center for Security Policy” (whatever the hell that is) declared on Hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday that in spite of the overwhelming evidence that the Iraq War was begun on false pretenses, “My position is that it’s regrettable that any Americans died. It is regrettable that they had to die, but I believe they did have to die.“

Here’s the video…

I’ve thought for a very long time now that George W. ...