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Former Rep. Tim Roemer, D-IN, mentioned in the article, is the son-in-law of former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-LA.

"President George W. Bush has been prevaricating and stonewalling ever since 9/11/2001."

The writer of this article needs serious psyciatric help......

I wish Bush and the Republican Party would speak up decisively on this issue. It gets more and more annoying every time I hear it. No one on the left ever disputed the assertions that Sadam had CBWs. Their battle cry was that it was no different than us having nuclear weapons and many went beyond trying to draw moral equivalence and state they were less comfortable with us having weapons than Sadam having them. I clearly recall them also saying that the only way Sadam was going to use the weapons that he had stockpiled (accepted as fact based on several years of intelligence under Clinton and from the UN) was if we dared to provoke him by attacking.

So we err on the side of caution by accepting information from years of intelligence under Clinton and reports from the UN and no huge stockpiles of CBWs are found and it is the most severe of all sins. Yet the same people asking for his head for acting on intelligence were the ones blaming him for not acting strongly enough prior to 9/11 so as to avert that tragedy.

Now they are clamoring for us to go into Liberia simply for humanitarian reasons. And we can't forget all the hand-wringing over Serbia/Bosnia. I believe that we are still there in some capacity. But somehow, the atrocities in Iraq count for nothing. I thought everything was "for the children." I guess the children being tortured in Iraq's prisons simply don't count.

Perhaps if those on the left that went so far out of their way to defend Sadam had not done so he would have been less defiant. It was a situation with no positive outcome because without a real threat of force there was no incentive for Sadam to cooperate. And as long as he felt that the left was protecting him from attack he would be able to thumb his nose at us.

I doubt that we ever will find anything significant but we did what we had to do considering what we believed to be an accurate depiction of an Iraq loaded for bear, so to speak, in a post 9/11 world combined with his complete lack of cooperation.

As things heat up with North Korea it is going to be interesting to see where these people fall. Another one of their lines was how we should be looking at Noth Korea, not Iraq, because they posed the larger, more imminent threat. I am sure that they will come down on the side of Kim Il Jong over America.