I couldn't help myself. I was sucked in by a flame-baiting set of questions on asmallvictory.net, a right-leaning blog run by a 40-year old Long Island woman who's one of the darlings of the warblogging set. She asked (what I think were meant to be) a series of rhetorical questions…

After seeing everything happening in Iraq right now, why would you still insist we should not be using force to take that regime out?

And why would you say that George Bush is the greatest threat to the world after seeing what Saddam is capable of?

And, like a half-starved striped bass,I rose to the bait.

The result, folks was what is so far a 63-entry long discussion on the comment page for the posting, in which a number of other anti-war “trolls” also chimed in, to be rebuffed and ridiculed by some of the dittoheads that frequent the site. There were a few willing to engage in civil discussion, and I managed to keep it civil (I didn't expect to change any minds, but at least I could change some perceptions about antiwar dissidents as whining, bleeding-heart cowards, I hoped).

Of course, I spent a little too much time posting there in response to follow-up flame bait. I couldn't help myself. There were so many dittoheads, so few real ideas, so little time.

So, go check out the fun and steal a little more of Michele's bandwidth.