JimBob:

I peaceful video has a threatening audio track "pieced together" with it and presented to the American public as real-time reality, with Bush posturing and threatening in response...and anyone can see that as even potentially harmless??? My God, we're all completely anesthetized if that's the case.

Well, we have to be anesthetized, in order to get past the basic situation; that our warship is off their coastline while our legislators discuss the possibility of attacking them, and we are considering ourselves just the innocent bystander being harrassed. Imagine the reverse, if an enemy warship was standing off the east coast while their parliament was debating a first strike, and they started screaming "act of aggression" when our coast guard ships came around to see if they could shoo them off.