Teribus--

Congratulations, you win the ostrich award. It'll look good next to your others, like the Fantasyland award--for your wonderfully imaginative theory that Clinton made Bush invade Iraq.

Look, when somebody says "Before Sept 11, many in the world believed Saddam Hussein could be contained", it is an obvious link of Sept 11 and Saddam. Elementary technique of propaganda--I thought you claimed some knowledge of history and geopolitics. Evidently no knowledge of psychology.

Obvious link--except, however to someone whose ego is so bound up in denying the obvious propaganda campaign that he may be one of the last in the world to acknowledge it. Now I wonder who that might be.

Here I stand; I can do no other--right? Or maybe, What? me worry?

You are truly a profile in....uh....uh....

The question, which you still have not answered, is: what happened on Sept 11 to cause many in the world to believe that Saddam could no longer be contained?

All of a sudden, Saddam is front and center for Bush. Why mention any person by name, if the only concern is your absurdly clumsy "asymetric attack". Unless by some chance he wanted to link Saddam to said "asymetric attack".

Spoken like a true military fossil.....uh, I mean genius.

Your song and dance, I'm sure, will be a big hit--somewhere.

There's a future for you in vaudeville.   Or maybe a past.