John56, You're really one of the good guys.
I yield to your assessment of WWII. It was more reasoned than mine, more thoughtful, and paid the respect and honor due the participants in that conflict the honor and respect that they were rightfully due. My assessment lost respective of how great they were. You're right; not me.
Ayle, I've seen John56's post on these subjects for awhile, and I'm guess (I don't want to put words in his mouth-just my guess) is that he isn't referring to evil as a religious fanatic does, but they way people refer to mass murders or child abusers. A person who hurts others for purely selfish reasons. Without implying demonic possession or supernatural intervention, I refer to people like child murders as evil, and I believe John56 does too.
I think John56 is right in emphasizing the enormity of what Bush does. I don't want Bush to be "normalized" or minimized as an everyday, common politician with his hand in the drawn. I think he will go done in history as the sole US president to have been evil, in the sense of any infamous dictator from the past, like Idy Amin (sp?)
PS John56, nice having people like you in the world to go after the bad guys.
TG