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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

I'm confused. I'm supposedly naively placing my trust in some vague, as-yet-undefined "media," when in fact I have never cited any such source for my skepticism. Yet you claim to have some inside information about this war that I, a mere peasant, lack, and that somehow makes you Churchill to my Chamberlain.

Perhaps our lack of communication arises from the fact that one of us is thinking and reasoning in English, while the other is extrapolating, conjecturing, and engaging in the most simple-minded of hero worship, thereby forsaking even the most rudimentary of analytical thought.