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Either you've been living in a snow cave in the Arctic Circle for the last three years, or somebody needs to get the "jaws of life" to help you remove your head from your @$$!

OK. Next you will tell me we had to start these wars because Saddam was about to get in his canoe and cross the Atlantic with Weapons of Mass Destruction.

By the way, where are those WMDs?

The war was necessary. The WMD excuse was meaningless. The war had to be fought because Iraq violated the ceasefire they signed in back in the George the Elder administration. The U.S. can’t allow defeated nations to violate ceasefire agreements and get away with it.

President Bush was stuck. He had to go back into Iraq, but to point out that it was because of the ceasefire violations would have made it clear that his father blew it by not finishing the job when Iraq first violated the ceasefire. It would remind people that his father was a failed president.

Nor could he mention that Clinton failed to do anything about the violations for 8 years, because the Democrats would have blistered his father for failing to act while he was still in office. They would have said he was blaming Clinton for his father's mess.

Bush took a chance that Iraq still had WMDs and used that as his excuse. It was a good political move and is still holding up. Bush keeps lowering the bar and the public isn’t even noticing it.

The war is Bush’s greatest accomplishment. Now, we have to see how he does with the occupation and nation building. It’s too early to tell how that will work out.

"Next you will tell me we had to start these wars because Saddam was about to get in his canoe and cross the Atlantic with Weapons of Mass Destruction."

"By the way, where are those WMDs?"

Don't worry the weapons will turn up! Either American troops will find the weapons buried in the desert, or the weapons will be used against the U.S. in a Sept. 11th style attack! The one certainty is that the weapons will turn up, and you will eat a big helping of crow!