Dougie,

Well, if Iraq is the model on how Bush is going to go about implimenting his blueprint fore liberty then count me out. All it's doing is liberating one heck of a lot folks from the list of the living. You can't bring liberty thru killing. They have another name for that...

...imperialism!!!

Yeah, it would be nice if everyopne felt liberated and free but, heck, there's at least 56,000,000 folks in the US who don't fell all that liberated or free and Bush hasn't even gotten 'round to having us rounded up and liberated of our lives so just how do you see him doing it elsewhere?

Quite a few of us here are asking the same quesrion and getting nuthin' more from you than whar we're hearing from Bush. Just alot of puffery with not real plan of action other than war.

Like where's the blueprint?

Or is it a secret blueprint like Nixon's secret blueprint for winning the Vietnam swar that he touted back in '68...

Mick,

I love ya' brother but got to spli hairs with ya on the "former hippie" remark. IMO, there's no such thing. Hippie is a state of mind and like riding a bicyle, once you get it you've got it. Sure there were lots of folks who hung out with hippies to get high and laid who never got it. These are folks you are talking about. I knew lots of 'em. I knew at the time the one's who got it and the one's who didn't just as I can meet someone today who I didn't know in the 60's who I quickly know was (and is) part of the movement. And they, me, as well....

Bobert