I feel fairly sure you're barking up not only the wrong tree, BB, but that it might be a sunflower in a different part of the garden altogether.

It is action, not speech or thought, that comes under the scrutiny of public accountability. Anyone who knows the United States at all knows that we encourage -- or used to -- public dialogue, open comparison of views and the right to speak or not about anything as a core civic right.

To then turn around and say that those who did not participate in UN negotiations with Saddam by individually making demands is abit lopsided and, like your navel, holds little water.

Private citizens in this country are MORE bound to exercise freedom of speech, I suggest, than they are to line up vocally behind one or another foreign policy.

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