This post also appears on the Wall Street Journal Letters page.
Colin Powell has a "nice" editorial in the WSJ this AM Here's what I wish he would have written: Americans cannot continue to die alone FOR you. You have to take up arms and take out the remains of the Baathist and Iranian terrorists. George Bush may lose the next election in the United States. Lots of Americans don't care if you live or die, if your tongues are nailed to boards by a leader who demands you keep quiet and obey. They don't care about mass graves as long as they are not their own. Another dictator in Iraq is just fine so long as their own private lives are comfortable. You need to take the lead. American soldiers cannot continue to be you in disguise. We need to help you, not fight for you.

It is time for you to stand up and fight. Right now.

That's what I wish somebody would say.