[Byron_the_Aussie]

..again we have an accusation without evidence. None. Just a personal attack upon the men responsible for our military and law enforcement actions to keep us from having another 9/11....

The evidence is all around you, mate. There has been a procession of fearmongering stories planted in the media in order to justify further encroachments on your liberties and an expansion of the various bureaucracies responsible. None bigger, I might add, than the current one; that puny Iraq, and its tinpot dictator, somehow represents a threat to the awesome might of the USA. The only way I can understand the craziness currently happening in some stratas of stateside society is that perhaps those involved are as gullible as this president. He gets told some wacky doomsday scenario in morning cabinet, by someone who has a very clear personal advantage in advancing such an agenda- say, the CIA director. The president in turn disseminates that, to a public made so paranoid by the constant fearmongering that there's nothing most of them wouldn't believe. To accept this hypothesis you must assume that President Bush is not too bright, not really aware of how important chaos theory is to international politics, and easily led by his intellectual superiors.

Are those assumptions really so huge a leap of faith?

[Crazymonarch]

Your right were going after Saddam because he's a madman...madmen don't stay in power 23 years,rat cunning people however do,...he has weapons of mass destruction...China has more and has stolen all our technology to be better than us why not start there?...he gassed his own people...so did Clinton and Reno,...human rights...why not start in Zimbabwe,...he might be linked to Al Quida...Saudi Arabia definately is,...he has nuclear weapons...I do trust the Mossad knows more than John Ritter on this,the moment he gets on,he'll get one used on him...he tried to kill my daddy and we want to control 90 percent of the worlds oil resources...now were getting somewhere.

John Howard legitimately helped in Afghanistan despite the fact it really was a business deal gone bad,Powell gave the Taliban 5 million last May 2001 knowing full well what scum they were,in fact what scum they all are KLA PLO etc etc CIA trained the lot,its the CIA director that keeps going to Arafats rescue.I hope he seriously considers our next engagement China,North Korea,Syria,Iran theres too many that might go up when this happens,it may not just be watching Roger Ramjet videos on CNN all these outfits know whats been threatened and might decide a team is the best way to go and as with the Roman Empire the Goths,Visygoths and Huns are allready within our borders.I have serious reservations about anything other than a negotiated Idi Amin like escape for this chap...then let someone sort him out later

[Recovering_Democrat]

None bigger, I might add, than the current one; that puny Iraq, and its tinpot dictator, somehow represents a threat to the awesome might of the USA.

Yeah, just like ol' whacky Adolph was just an eccentric Austrian who'd taken over Germany...until he moved on all of Europe.

Swallow all the Democrat liberal/Eurotrash swill you want. I'm glad someone who takes threats to world stability seriously is in the White House.

Little wonder the Continent comes running to America when dictators over run them.