Doug, what I've heard from Ritter has seemed well-informed and persuasive, and as such it's influenced my view. The interviews with him that I've seen here in the UK have not mentioned, let alone plugged, any book, so I didn't know about that, beyond your earlier comment.

Are you saying Ritter has made it up to sell a book, even though the patriotic truth (as you may see it) would presumably have got him better sales? What exactly IS your line on Saddam/Iraq/Ritter etc, Doug, and would you care to say who/what has been informing YOUR viewpoint? I ask because I honestly don't see how anyone could read up on this subject and still be sanguine about where Bush is going.

Bobert, Joe and others, I can imagine how difficult it must be to take issue with a particular issue when that issue has been so heavily wrapped in the national flag.