So much investigating of so many things---past and present. Yet we do not seem to get to first base in really starting an investigation of who knew what and when they knew it re: 9-11. That alone is an interesting qauestion.

The other might be: is it possible all this new hype about Iraq is meant to keep corporate scandals (including the goings on at Halliburton) off the front page?

No one seems to recall or report that quite a few moons ago the Israelis (without hype) destroyed Saddam's nuclear reactor.

The "balance of terror" worked for years with the USSR---striking unilaterrely can open quite a "Pandora's Box"--and without Congress seems unconstitional---but, perhaps we should check with that great constitutional scholar and defender of civil liberties--John Ashcroft--on that matter.

My own take on all this is that Cheney may well be the best ventriloquist ever---does not move his lips while Dubya speaks.

I end with a quote from Maureen Dowd in the NYTimes of a few days back---Geo. Bush the Elder is quoted as saying that his son goes to bed each night without a care in his head--I am proud of that. And as Maureen Down continues---that IS frightening

Bill H