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Your remark about my having faith in GOD and our President was uncivil however, IMHO.

My remark was a premise of a syllogism: IF we can believe that intel gathered by use of this technique has prevented 8 al-Qaida attacks in this country, then the intel is not dubious. One thing arguing against blind acceptance of that premise is that George Bush is capable of falsifying data that will aid his case. While that was not the central point of my premise, intellectual rigor demands that it be recognized.

Argue on the merits of your beliefs, not upon my proclamation of faith.

First, your faith inspires no such obligation in me. Secondly, I am not "arguing" anything. I am merely presenting my personal observations, consistent with logical thought. And thirdly, I suspect that this disagreement arose from a misperception. When I suggested that George Bush was capable of misrepresentation, I did not intend to insult your god. In my religion, George Bush is simply a human being, as fallible as the rest of us mere mortals.

The fact that he has achieved a credibility on par with the Almighty in your opinion says more about you than it does about him. And it certainly doesn't lend any logical weight to your case.

You are running on Windows and I am running on Linux. We are definitely having a communication problem. As I said, believe what you will.

I am among those who KNOW the enemy we face, and KNOW what is needed to defeat that enemy. I do not have the luxury of academic skepticism of a leader whom I entrusted with our future, when he asked for that trust. He asked for us to remain strong in the dark hours ahead and I plan to honor my oath.

I'll go with Churchill and not Chamberlain any day. Those that thought there were alternatives to battling the "evil of their time", studied and formed committees to hold hearings, they wrote op-ed pieces and gave public speeches. Churchill and those with him worked hard to prepare for the coming War that they knew loomed without escape, just beyond the horizon. It is so today. There will only be "Peace in our time" upon Victory. To doubt that cause is a waste of time and effort.

Bush is fighting this War 24/7. The media is with our enemy... the very media that forms this oh so righteous data with which you, without merit of them having earned it, give them enough trust to establish a modicum of legitimacy to their anti-Bush arguments.

We just are not going to agree, and I'll leave it at that.

LLS