<html> <body> there's a west indian saying, "The higher a man climbs, the more you can see the red of his ass." which, loosely translated, means: <dl> <dd>"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men are  <dd>   always bad men." <dd>        -- 150 years ago by the British statesman, Lord Acton;  <dd>                    most people leave out the last sentence </dl>At 02:29 PM 2/11/2003 -0800, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Interview with Zinn on Iraq war and the role of artists: See <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15110" eudora="autourl">http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15110</a> Omaha Weekly Reader: [snip] One of the most striking points of the speech was the quote of the Trojan queen Hecuba when asked  what war looks like: Like the backside of a baboon. When the  baboon is up in a tree, with its hind end facing us, there is the face of war exactly: scarlet, scaly, glazed, framed in a clotted, filthy wig.  You said if enough Americans could see that then the war in Iraq  might not take place. How can you make that point to the average  American who hasn't gone to war, or even been alive during a full   ground assault war? [snip] </blockquote></body> </html>