Ah Amos, so glad to see you got my message to Bobert, indicating why Iraq did not appear on that list, nice to see that your keeping up. Must be a bit of a change for you actually putting down stuff in your own words as opposed to reams and reams of "cut-n-pastes" of other peoples opinions.

Now go back and read my post again:

"Well here's the core bug in your effing so-called rationale, Turhey"

I take it that that last word should have been Turkey?? As for a bug in "your (my) effing so-called rationale,". I thought that I had detailed it sufficiently so that any reader could deduce that I was not the one tasked with briefing the President. That job fell to all 19 of the Intelligence and Security Agencies of the United States of America and by the Joint House Security Committee of the US Congress, they Amos, identified Iraq as posing the greatest threat and they backed that up with all the information they had at their disposal complete with analyses and evaluations.

Now then Amos, you tell me, faced with the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, as President of the United States of America, exactly why you would have ignored that advice. Who would you, as the person responsible for the security of the USA, would have listened to instead and why - Please don't say Bobert, or you'll end up being certified.

This one I really loved:

"Some of us remembered his proposition about the "Mother of All Battles" and understood that his talk of missiles and weapons was comparable bullshit."

Oh, if memory serves me correctly Amos, it was going to be a disaster of "Stalingrad" proportions for the US Forces. They were going to have fight "house-to-house" and "street-to-street". The predictions were that instead of being welcomed as liberators the entire country would rise up against the imperialistic US invader. Well neither happened as clear cut as all that did it Amos? Oh by the way I think the "Mother of all Battles" was a Saddam quip from the first bash, in 1991, you know the one, "Desert Storm". The Mother of all Battles was supposed to be the one that would occur should the UN try to take back Kuwait and expell Iraqi forces from the territory they had invaded.