From honor comes assent to the consequences of a decision.

I am anticipating, perhaps in vain, a response from the throngs who tore their hair and wrung their hands, all in the name of a great many superlative virtues, to the al Zubayr slaughterhouse and the many others like it yet to be found.

Murder. We have found institutionalized murder. Systematic torture and execution, cold-blooded catalogs and anonymous burial in secret sands - a horrifying, well-oiled, butchery machine that would have continued unabated if reactionaries on the left and far right, various clergy, irresponsible world leaders and all other nescient fools had their way.

This is not the first time.

But it can be made the last. Fitting redress would be a mortified lamentation, followed by a complete retraction of every vomitous comparison of the President of the United States to demons of the modern age such as Saddam Hussein; every usurpation of moral authority as a dialectic weapon against liberation; every bald-faced lie painting the Iraqi people as being in any semblance of lucid solidarity with their oppressors; every blind eye turned to the manifest abominations occurring daily inside Iraq; every sickeningly hollow prayer to God for "peace" and "justice" to presumably fall from the sky like confetti while the opportunity for forcible emancipation, true peace and true justice, went unseized for year after year; and the vile, unctuous arrogance sustaining every prevarication aforesaid, passive crimes all against one's fellow man, done in spite of sheer evidence.

Those culpable to this moral evasion are, unwitting or volitional, stubborn patsies for evil; every one.

I call for one shred of honor. Will they please sit down.