[RJCogburn]

Noonan is right on here. Bush still has not yet made a good case that many 'average Americans' accept. Facts, as she suggests, should do that and I anticipate Bush will be more convincing tomorrow.

Mr. Bush, as president, knows things we don't know.

I don't find that helpful one bit....the same old LBJ argument.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Bush still has not yet made a good case that many 'average Americans' accept. Facts, as she suggests, should do that...

Here's a fact: ~ Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441.

Iraq is: ~lying (we don't have no stinkin' WMD) ~ playing a cat and mouse game with inspectors and NOT proactively proving its weapons have been destroyed ~ and threateneing its scientists and their families with death if they speak to inspectors alone.

In short, Iraq has spit all over Resolution 1441 ~ and material breach means war.

[Quilla]

Bush still has not yet made a good case that many 'average Americans' accept.

I respectfully disagree. After listening to the President's address to the UN (and re-reading it several times), I'm convinced from that one speech alone. The American public has been inundated with anti-war rhetoric from the leftist media. Huge protests staged by communists are being reported as reflecting the passions of average Americans. Anytime a conservative government offical makes a statement, the statement is merely repeated by the media followed by lengthy interviews from the President's political opponents. IMHO, the media is responsible for most of the anti-war opinions in this country and abroad.