Teribus--

Not to put too fine a point on it--you are truly pathetic.   But entertaining.

"Colin Powell stood...." Big fat deal. The real propaganda push came, as you may recall we've discussed before-- (for about 500 posts)-- between summer 2002 and March 2003.

And you have NEVER come up with even one quote DURING THAT PERIOD that establishes that the Bush regime was not trying--skilfully--and very successfully--to draw links between 11 Sept 2001 and Saddam in the minds of the US public. Goebbels would have been proud.

"Neither George W Bush...." In plain English---- Bollocks.

For the n th time:   why do you suppose Bush, in the 28 Jan 2003 State of the Union address said; "Before September the 11th, many in the world believed Saddam Hussein could be contained."?

Linking the two in one sentence is pure coincidence? Anything you say.

And how about (also in the same speech): "Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein"?

"19 hijackers....Saddam Hussein" in the same sentence. Gee, I wonder why.

And don't bother to give us your tired idiocies about "warning about a future possibility, not saying that Saddam was responsible for 9-11". Of course he's not spelling out that Saddam was responsible for that. Nobody claims that he was. But he is clearly trying to imply that if we don't do something about Saddam--real soon-- there will, in the near future, be a similar situation to 9-11. But "this time armed by Saddam"--who, we have been told over and over, is likely to have chemical, biological and/or nuclear weapons. That is--a 9-11 situation--but with chemical, biological and/or nuclear weapons.

It's a message calculated to raise deep fears in his audience--and panic them into supporting his planned Iraq invasion. And combined with the rest of the propaganda campaign--it worked like a charm.

Now perhaps you'd like to tell us your story on why Bush used "19 hijackers" and "Saddam Hussein" in the same sentence--in the above context. Here's your chance to be creative--to let the true fantasist in you take wing. I have faith that you can come up with a delightfully imaginative reason Bush would do this. Enjoy!

It was wonderful fun--entirely too much fun--to slash your feeble arguments to ribbons when we had this discussion about a year ago. And I'm real sorry about your tender ego.

I may not have much time to do it again this year--though it is severely tempting--you're such a huge soft target.

So we'll see how it goes.