FOWL!:

Why? Because We Can (MAUREEN DOWD, September 29, 2002, NY Times)

The Boy Emperor's head hurt. [...]

"I'm confused, Wise Rummy," he confessed. "Is the war pre-emptive, preventive or preventable? Is Saddam fissile or fissible? What in creation is counterproliferation? Everything's moving so fast. It's a puzzlement. Why are we mad at Saddam?"

"Because he wants to attack our country," the mandarin replied.

"Why?" the Boy pressed.

"Because we want to attack his country," the tutor said.

"Why?" The Boy was insatiable.

"Because Saddam tried to destroy your dad."

"Why?"

"Because your dad tried to destroy Saddam." [...]

"Why are we attacking Iraq, which may someday team up with terrorists, instead of Iran, which has already teamed up with terrorists?"

Ms Dowd or the Tic-Tac-Toe playing chicken who now appears to peck out her columns, commits a foul here. Having conceded that Saddam Hussein tried blowing up a president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, who just happened to be traveling with Laura Bush at the time, one does not get to then ask this final question. Saddam needn't be shown to be teaming up with terrorists when you've conceded he is one. Though we must note that Ms Dowd (or the chicken) seems to think the assassination attempt a legitimate response to our liberation of Kuwait. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 29, 2002 5:54 AM