[Chancellor Palpatine]

Saddam's complicity in September 11 would present a good argument for devastating retaliation for an act of war, but there's no evidence that he was involved.

First point - no evidence provided to you. You're not in intelligence, nor are you in any decision making capacity which requires risking information sources in order to trust you. Big difference.

And the phrase "no evidence" is not the same as "didn't do it".

[AUgrad]

First point - no evidence provided to you. You're not in intelligence, nor are you in any decision making capacity which requires risking information sources in order to trust you

True. Yet we are being asked to blindly trust our leaders who are career politicians. I try, yet cannot muster such blind faith. I've been taught all of my life to take anything that comes from a politicians mouth with a grain of salt.Now they expect lockstep consent. Not from me.