[andyfox]

"I believe our Presidnt has better information than you or hundi36."

-On what do you base this belief, Jimbo? In the past, presidents of both parties, both liberal and conservative, have claimed they had information which necessitated military action. All too often, they were lying. President Kennedy told us we were defending freedom and democracy in the country of South Vietnam. But there was no freedom there, no democracy, and, in fact, no country of South Vietnam. President Johnson told us we were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. We were not. President Nixon told us he had a secret plan for peace. The only thing he had was a plan to drop more bombs than had been dropped in the history of the world. President Reagan told us that Nicaragua was a totalitarian dungeon and that the murderers who opposed them were the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers. President Clinton's record of pathological untruth telling stands as an exemplar par excellence of the fact that all government officials are liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Now we find out that one of the bases for the U.S. and Great Britain's evidence against Saddam Hussein is, at the least, somewhat suspect. I believe we have reason to doubt not only that President Bush has more and better information than he has revealed, since what he has revealed is itself suspect information. When we're talking about having sex with someone in the White House, not all that much harm is done. When we're talking about dropping missiles on civilians, that's another story.