BELIEFS

"As long as people believe in absurdities
they will continue to commit atrocities."

               Voltaire


Senators and Congressmen have always had a hard time getting clear dope from the intelligence community. That's why the Sandanista scandal rolled as far as it did -- old man Casey was carrying out a widdle war for the Gipper, and he wasn't much interested in letting the Senate Committee on Intell know where all the cards were. It was all supposed to be about "arms traffic interdiction", when actually Casey was pushing the contras to come down and take over Guatemala, IIRC.

Anyway, a clear set of facts is glaring in its absence. Assuming that ":they must know more than we do" is always dangerous and usually flawed as an assumption. Rolling out the mass-death machine based on such assumptions is not justified to my conscience. All Bush has done is present conclusions and Saddam's history, which gruesome though it is, is not clear grounds for the wide-scale destruction of lives and body parts.

A.