Dateline: Dover, N.H.

After reading this, I've decided to move to New Hampshire. At least they'll have trouble finding me if I really am an accomplice. Excerpt:

"Nearly everyone reading this is about to become an accomplice to murder.

You are on the verge of launching a massive assault on Iraq, which will result in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and soldiers duty-bound to defend their land. Your massive aerial slaughter will be the denouement to a decade of silent genocide that, in the name of peace and security, has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children. Your invasion will be swift and brutal. You will rid the world of an ugly tyrant and probably put another in his place. It may lead to unimaginable consequences — revolution, terrorism, and war — across the Middle East and beyond. It will be a staggering blow to the rule of law and justice in international affairs. Your invasion will be illegal and illogical, based on flimsy evidence and supported by childish, Orwellian propaganda. It is happening because untold billions will accrue to those who control the media you watch and the companies which suck your retirement funds dry: it is permitted because those who bear the costs are invisible people in a far-off land of which you know nothing. Iraq will be invaded not because it is a threat but because it is so weak it cannot even defend itself. People will not be liberated, but oil surely will. All this will be done in your name, as you buy canned food and huddle in basements because of a conveniently-timed "terror alert." Done in your name as an anti-war movement, it is studiously ignored by politicians and the media. You have been duped by a gang of seedy, evil men who could not enumerate Wilson’s Fourteen Points without laughing, who plot war while kneeling in church, who can stage a photo op of a chickenhawk general in front of a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt without blushing. Men to whom the stench of corpses and the attendant profit is so much perfume. Men who can’t even be bothered to make their lies remotely credible when they stand in mockery before the world. You will send your sons and daughters to kill and be killed, while they wire profits to their offshore hedge funds. You will believe that it is all right and good and the American Way, and that is a repellent thought." --Colin Shea