Molly Ivins: Try a little tenderness

I'm just sorry the administration -- by constantly changing its rationales, making dubious or unproved claims about nuclear weapons and links to al Qaeda, and relying on what turned out to be forged evidence in the case of the Niger papers -- has so muddied the water and alienated the rest of the world.

The most depressing thing about this war is that we are going into it with the support of the majority of public opinion in exactly two countries, the United States and Israel -- and that is indeed a miserable failure of diplomacy, as Sen. Tom Daschle put it.

Even if the war goes well, and we all pray it does, it's going to be the peace from hell. Let's try being a little gentler with one another. If you don't want to drink French wine, instead of pouring it out, why not make some bum really happy?

She also uses an excellent and overlooked point about Resolution 1441 that Bush and Blair are trying to use as cover for this being a legal war. The language is cloudy, it had to be to get it to pass, and the other countries finally went along because the U.S. said the Security Council would determine if there was a breach and what to do about it. Legally if the laguage isn't clear you look at the intent. Oops, I guess I can count that up as another lie and another reason this is an illegal war. The legal argument about 1441 is from Talking Points Memo.