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Well, since it is apparently so easy to educate oneself in these matters, tonight I set out to learn 1) what's up with Iraq, 2) what's up with U.S. foreign policy, 3) what's up with North Korea, 4) what's up with France, and 5) what's up with chili dogs.

I found lots of information on it. Lots and lots and lots. Many different sources. Many different people saying many different things. Many different newscasts and articles and op-ed columns and history books. None of them, unfortunately, agree with one another. With a little checking into possible bias, I have determined that all of them are about equivalently valid. I have been advised that I should listen to them all and draw my own conclusions, which I have reached as being: it's a whole lot more complicated than it appears on the surface, which, damn it, I already knew!

I think I'll grow up and be a plumber.