I’m with Ramesh and Kathryn on this one. At best it’s, well, dippy. At worst, it seems to trivialize what that purple finger actually represents. Members of Congress haven’t earned the right to wave around an inked finger, none of us have. The courage to defy the threats and vote is a victory that belongs to the millions of Iraqis determined to see a democratic Iraq. Saddam wouldn’t have been toppled without us, but there would be no emerging democracy without them. Let them have it to themselves.