Now that the issue of the legality of the Iraq invasion is back in the news big time, it still amazes me how people can contemplate with such equanamity the staggering loss of life and disruption to the infrastructure of society that the Iraqi people have suffered. I think of all the people who have lost relatives and friends, who have lived in fear all these years, who have lost their businesses, their homes, their jobs or who have had to flee to live as refugees in other countries - it is no justification to my way of thinking that under Sadam Hussein things were so bad - does that make it all right to be equally destructive? Are some people's conscience so easy over all this simply because they can't imagine such devastation happening to their own lives, or is it just that they can't think of other nationalities as deserving of compassion?