I find the quotation very appropriate to the Iraqis on what they are going through now. How many innocent Iraqis have been killed to date.

You got a winner quote there, socratoad.

Socratoad is one of my favorite clippers.

Why thank you Debby.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

It remind the long years I lived under the Junta. One of the worst dictatorships of the last century in South America. Thirty thousand "desaparecidos" in the name of achivieng a better nation....

but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end

Very true. They never rested...

To see what Lewis was really talking about, read his novel, "That Hideous Strength".