Yo, T:

No, the millions of people who actually took to the streets did not represent everyone who was against the invasion of Iraq any more than if a pro-life demonsatration attracts a thousand people that those 1000 prople are the only ones that hold pro-life views. Get my drift here? Your reasoning is flawed. The point is that with millions of folks in the streets Bush should have been more concerned with *getting it right* than playing cowboy.

Now we all have been witness to the revisions and re-revisions and re-re-revisions of how the story will look in it's final form.

Remember the "mushroom cloud" days, T? Remember the articles in the major newspapers and on the major television networks of the CIA warning the White House not to play that card? No? Well, I sure do. But the Bush White House played it anyway.

Then there was this inmistakenable link between bin Laden and Iraq. Might of fact, evn after Bushj himself has acknowledged that there is no proff to back that claim up, Dick Cheney still brings it up as if it is fact. These are reasonable things to look at, my friend, especially when you have a pre-emtive policy of defense.

And now you have folks calling into C-SPAN saying stuff like, "Well, I don't care if there weren't any WDM's, at least Saddam is out of power." Well, where did that little *slogan* come from? Well, I'll tell you. The Bush PR machine, that's where.

See where wre are going with this? This administration has had an agenda that dates back to at least 1992 when Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle drew it up on paper. They took the plan to the Clinton adminstration and it was rejected. Then along comes Cowboy George and 9/11 and waalaa. Bingo!

Problem is, T, that the US hasn't yet figgured out how to act in its roll of Big Dog yet. The invasion of Iraq is a prime example. Consider this, my friend. What if rather than whack Iraq, the Bush folks had chosen to buddy up to Saddam? Hey, he been a company man most of his life and there's no reason to believe that he couldn't have been given an opportunity to be brought back into the fold, so to speak. And don't give me the "he was a bad man" crap because the US has and continues to buddy up to bad men so that dog won't hunt. At some point in time the Big Dog will have to think diplomacy first rather than bite. We missed an opportunity in Iraq and now we're paying dearly for it. Figuratively, morally and finacially with no end in sight.

Just food for thought, T-Bird... Why noy consider what I've and others have said here fir a couple of hours before working up your standard rebuttal. I mean we can argue all day over tiny details but the basics are purdy much in place here. We hear your arguments 24/7 as the Bush folks and their media allies thry to pound the fight song into our heads. It's easy to take your side because of this but, IMHO, it does not make your side right.

Try a little open mindedness once in a while. Your *reaction* time is a tad bit too fast and seems to be getting in the way of your objectivity...

Peace.

Bobert