That's what the President said, derisively, as he spoke of protests across the country and around the world against his demands for war against Iraq.

George W. Bush's dismissal of protests against war as irrelavent set up a strawman position and beat it down. He said: “Some in the world don't view Saddam Hussein as a risk to peace. I respectfully disagree.”

Now, I don't think that the majority of protestors took the position that Saddam Hussein is not a threat to peace. I think they were saying that George W. Bush is a greater threat to peace at the moment; that there are other ways to achieve a resolution of Hussein's recalcitrance that might not shed quite as much blood or cause as many long-lasting problems that would call for additional bloodshed.

But George has cotton in his ears. He's made his decision. Nobody is going to change his mind, least of all people who didn't vote for him.

“Democracy is a wonderful thing.” Especially when it can be ignored.