Nicole: there you go again! Bush and company, even the leadership in both houses of the congress have informed the American people that Saddam has been skimming the oil for food program in order to continue to build his weapons program. You state unequivocally that he is not.

Unless you have some super source for information (not some article published in a anti-U.S. publication) the president and the congress do not have, I must doubt that you are correct. Respectfully.

You also appear to have an uncanny source of information about how the Iraqi people feel about Saddam. I heard a reporter for the New York Times (it could have been the New Yorker ...I'm sure it wasn't The Guardian)on NPR who was interviewed by Diane Rhemes' temporary replacement last week. He had gone to Iraq specifically to see if he could find out how the people feel about Saddam. Since it is against the law to criticize Saddam (and people have lost tongues for doing so according to the reporter)it is impossible, he reported, to say HOW the people feel about Saddam.

DougR