EVIL: 1 a: morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked b: arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct 2 aarchaic : inferior b: causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive c: disagreeable 3 a: causing harm : pernicious b: marked by misfortune : unlucky [Merriam-Webster Online]

This is what it's come to.  The local newspaper in my town in Virginia today ran an op-ed by rightwinger Cal Thomas attacking Hillary Clinton for her past support for the war.  Thomas began by criticizing Clinton for pretending she had never supported the war, but the bulk of his column blamed her simply for supporting it and for falling for the lies that Bush had used to sell it:

"One wonders what took such a smart woman until January 2007 in Iowa to conclude that she had been duped.  And, one wonders: If she can be misled by so many people in whom she has confidence, how will she be able to see clearly as president?"

Along with this column, the paper printed a cartoon from the San Antonio Express News that shows Hillary with a "Hillary 08" button thinking "He's not the only one I wish would go away."  She's reading an article about Obama, and walking up behind her is another Hillary labeled "Pro-War Hillary."

I am absolutely furious with this paper for not reporting the very important information that President Bush just returned from another sell out trip to Mexico, also a meeting with Canada to finish the plans for his disastrous North American Union, & SPP. [Security & Prosperity Partnership of N. America.] This folks will erase the borders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and will dissolve our constitution. This was signed without Congressional knowledge, signed by the three nations in 2005. IS THIS NOT A TREASONIST ACT?

I believe Bush, Cheney should be impeached Immediately, they are both quite aware of what they are doing. Do any of you care at all that our nation is being dissolved by the President and V. President, Canada & Mexico.

Watch out for SPP, NAU, The selling of our Toll Roads, Ports, National Forests, to foreign nations, amnesty to all Illegal Aliens in our nation up to 40 Million. These people will get SS funds, Welfare, green cards, foodstamps, free health care, etc.& most important fact that we will be in further wars with Iran, Lebanon, Syria, etc.

The people running the Iraq war are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They’ve convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience -- helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon’s top officials are so eager to protect.

“The judge in the case against the first U.S. officer court-martialed for refusing to ship out for Iraq barred several experts in international and constitutional law from testifying Monday [Feb. 5] about the legality of the war,” the Associated Press reported.

While the judge was hopping through the military’s hoops at Fort Lewis in Washington state, an outpouring of support for Watada at the gates reflected just how broad and deep the opposition to this war has become.

The AP dispatch merely stated that “outside the base, a small group that included actor Sean Penn demonstrated in support of Watada.” But several hundred people maintained an antiwar presence at the gates, where a vigil and rally -- led by Iraq war veterans and parents of those sent to kill and be killed in this horrific war -- mirrored what is happening in communities across the United States.