There lies the rub. I don't think that a person merely lives in the boundries of a state should be killed by what that state does.

If all can move to somewhere else easily then that is a reasonable statement, but most people are stuck regardless of what leaders there are.

In elections, how many would say "vote for me! I'm going to nuke the USA!!"

So, even though masses of people deisgree with Bush to varying degrees (some despise the man) they are complicit although they voted against him? I'll just have to agree to disagree.

Your use of the dog forgets the fact that a nation is not a dog! There is not complete collective desicion. A better one would be: One person goes in the yard. Because of that you kill him, his family, his friends and anyone else who looks remotely like him who happens to live nearby.