I'm sitting in an Internet cafe while traveling and just read Molly Ivins' last column (http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2389) forwarded to me by my Texan father, who I consider one of the world's least ideological, most pragmatic men. He's a fiscally conservative independent voter, who has probably voted for a lot more republicans than democrats in his life.

In Jan. 16, 2003 Ivins wrote:

“I assume we can defeat Hussein without great cost to our side (God forgive me if that is hubris). The problem is what happens after we win. The country is 20 percent Kurd, 20 percent Sunni and 60 percent Shiite. Can you say, ‘Horrible three-way civil war?’ ”

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0202-21.htm

This should have been obvious to all of us, and I wish I'd read it back then. I was a very reluctant supporter of the war, because of my terror of nuclear terrorism.

All the more reason to honor her last request

"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell.

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2389

Not a lot of people read my blog, and I'd say that none of those are natural hell raisers.

And all of you are busy. But if you had time to read this, you have time to do *something*.

Since like me, you probably have more money than time, make a donation to this Molly Ivins Fund for Investigative Reporting at the Texas Observer - 307 West Seventh Street; Austin, TX 78701.

I'm not affiliated with the Observer, but it's one of the things that makes me proud to be from Texas. I´ll do a two to one match of all pledges on this page, up to $25,000.