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I just wrote you a long explanation and apologized and hit the wrong button and it went to the lost in computer land bucket--I am sorry because in 6 years I have never been rude, but there has been so much evidence of WMD that I have zero doubt we will find them. Once Saddam is verified dead and most of his goons gone, people will start talking and we will carefully unearth them and then test them in the US. That will take time and the main focus right now must be clearing out the remnants of Saddam's regime and helping Iraq set up a provisional govt. Bush has been underestimated over and over again. He took a risk during the midterm elections so that we could take the Senate back against all odds and he is not going to sit around after this war. I have the utmost respect for his leadership because he has earned it. He is not his father politically, just morally. He knows what the dems did to his dad by saying a tax hike must be passed--look at what he has accomplished with constant criticism coming from the left. Saddam didn't fight the inspectors for 12 years because he had nothing to hide. He could have destroyed the WMD in front of them and been left alone as most of the UN were perfectly content to let him keep torturing and murdering his own people. And I am sorry I sounded snippy!

No apology needed! I think you have made very good points, and are probably correct. The real search for WMD won't occur till after the war. I just wish the military would quit being so eager to label every suspicious steel drum as sarin etc. It looks bad when it turns out to not be the case. My lingering worry is this...who would have thought at the end of the first Gulf War that Bush Sr, with an approval rating of 90%, would lose the election a year later and the US would get stuck with 8 years of Clinton? I worry (yes I do that well) that we are being set up again. A popular prez with a successful war will lose because of economic concerns on the home front and we will be burdened with 8 years of Gore/Hillary. This is nightmare fodder!! Thanks.