"Personally, I think America is way too fucking big and powerful to be even slightly threatened by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or his remote-controlled balsa-wood chemical-spraying planes, or his 12-year-old centrifuge parts, or his ballpoint pen sketches of cool missile designs, or whatever. But apparently, for some so-called patriots, this pathetic dictator and the destitute, militarily impotent country he was tyrannizing were some sort of grave threat to the American way of life. "