You're right, Doug, much of it is this is opinion. But I also note that you have yet to forward one single, substantiated fact. You have faith in the Bush government.

Know what? Governments LIE. They lie when they think it's for the good of the people and the lie when they are cruel and despotic -- usually the motivations are somewhere in between. It's the nature of government and has been true at least since the Greeks. Blindly believing anything any government tells you is foolhardy. Our Founding Fathers knew this -- that's why our government has review after review after review, finally leading up to the civic responsibility of the voters.

If you think something is true only because the government says so, there's no point in continuing this discussion.

But the Bush administration has failed to convinced other countries of this folly. On one hand we have the Bush administration, and on the other hand we have every other intelligence gathering country in the world. Why? Because they don't have any evidence to present, only suppositions.

Madeline Albright, when asked about the deaths of 5,000 children a month in Iraq due to the sanctions merely stated, "We think the price is worth it."

I'm sorry, but I don't think the slaughtering of children, civilians, or the deaths of American servicepeople is "worth it" when all there are are suppositions. If the Administration can bring FACT to the table that shows that Saddam is a greater threat than the lives that will be lost in a war, then it might be worth considering. But there isn't any FACT coming out the administration, because they *don't have any.* Instead they pass off theories and suppositions and old information as truth, when half of it is lies and the other half is mere rhetoric.

Sorry, I don't have "faith." Not when lives are at stake.