Thomas Spencer is also making most of my points about this administration and Iraq on his History News Network.

Among other things he writes: "Why is it that Republicans so frequently appeal to freedom but are usually the first to try to curtail it in real terms? Why for conservatives is freedom an entirely economic thing? Freedom for them is freedom from taxes, freedom from government regulation and freedom to buy and sell stocks on insider information. But, for them, freedom from government surveillance, freedom of reproductive choice and, most importantly, freedom of speech, don't seem to exist."