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Safire's peroration on Saddam's forthcoming trial:

But so will the ghosts of poison-gassed Halabja and Iraqi children forced to clear minefields in Iran. The meticulous presentation of his offenses against humanity will demonstrate again that all that would have been necessary for the triumph of evil was for good people to do nothing.

Uh, Bill—who sold Saddam the gas? Bad people doing something, I guess....