Wanda Baucus, 54-year-old anthropologist wife to the five-term Montana Senator, is a good deal confused as she was under the impression that "we all wanted peace":

"I want the people in Iraq to have peace -- the people whose lives are in turmoil because of the war, the children, their mothers, the farmers, the grandmothers and even the camels that are out grazing," said the 54-year-old Baucus, an anthropologist who has taught at Harvard as well as a painter who regularly visits the south of France.

Tragic that Wanda's peace of mind is shattered - it was so quiet and tranquil while Saddam was peacefully, quietly, silently, delicately murdering thousands upon thousands of his people for two decades. If a tortured Iraqi screams in a sound-proofed Baghdad dungeon, we surely know that for Mrs. Baucus, no sound has been made. In the complacency of stateside politics, this sort of conscience-mangling ignorance is somewhat excusable. But as the mass graves are uncovered and the stories told, Wanda and her lot will be white-gloved, passive accomplices to murder - every last one.

ONE YEAR LATER, NUANCE: For Mrs. Baucus, peace talks stop at the first sign of improper and inequitable mulch distribution.