That there "scoundrel comment" was meant to be sort of an analogy - unless you think it's a metaphor; I in't too clear on them things - and I got it from wherehyou say "the Administration's repeated assertions that Iraq could not be allowed to become a threat." The which I taken, in my iggorant way, to mean

"They ain't done nothing and we better shoot them before they do."

The metaphor part is where I talked about you getting him off the hook for lying by saying he done something worse.

Unless it's an analogy.

It's sort of what they call a manner of speaking. Might be it's a parable?

clint