"From what has been said here re: Clarke, I take it that everybody would have been happy had the US started bombing Afghanistan in February 2001, even happier if they had started three months before that - that is what Clarke proposed they do."

What I wrote on the 27th at 1:52 was "I don't necessarily agree with his opinions, but I don't think he's fudging the facts. And I've heard similar stories from other sources of Bush's tendency to demand that facts support his stand - political or scientific -instead of basing his stand on the facts."

That probably should have said "facts that support his stand" but I think you can get my meaning

And please read my earlier post on the 27th at 12:10 AM. And please don't put words in my mouth.

clint