[Amalie]

"With regard to the rest of the WMD claims, I've always suspected that we didn't *want* to prove that there were chemical and biological weapons anywhere in the the thousands of munitions depots spread around Iraq. Do that, and suddenly its a race against time to find them before Al Queda does."

An excellent point, and a reason I had never thought of until you mentioned it. If so, I wonder how many other Bush 'meekness' problems could also be related directly to these security issues.

[7thson]

Excellent points. It somewhat reminds me about reading of the Nixon-Kennedy race of 1960. Kennedy continually spoke of a missile gap between us and the Soviets, yet he knew that was untrue. He got the same briefings as Nixon yet the Nixon campaign and the Ike Administration could not say anything without tipping off the Soviets about what they knew.

I think it is the same now. These leftists in the Senate know what is up, yet continually spread lies knowing the Bush Administration cannot show their hand without tipping off the terrorisits.

In conclusion - they are a bunch of scumbags!