Debra Saunders of the SF Chronicle writes that Google can afford to have high principles when the stakes are small, but those priciples crumble when the stakes are large:

Google gives life to the Eric Hoffer observation, "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them" ....

Google can say no to the Bushies and know that it won't lose any business, its executives won't go to jail and their children will not get run over by tanks. In the country where those things could happen, Google is a collaborator.