Excerpt: Consider this quote in yesterday's Washington Post (Sunday, October 23rd) from an article about I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Dick Cheney: "Libby greatly admires the work of Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and military historian who posits that warfare is an inevitable part of civilization, evil is a basic condition of humanity, and tyrants must be confronted by the harshest possible means. (In late 2002, a few months before the Iraq invasion, Cheney--also a Hanson devotee--invited the historian to the vice president's mansion for a small dinner gathering that included Libby.)...Hanson's stark perspective comports with Libby's view on Iraq. He was among the administration's fiercest proponents of the invasion, and his office prepared a 48-page document of intelligence on Iraq's WMDs for Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations in February 2003. (Powell couldn't confirm a lot of the data and wound up not using much of it.)"   more »