[andyfox]

"there was more pressing business to attend to, and it wasn't going to change the decision about going to war."

I believe you've hit the nail on the head here with your second clause. They were going to war no matter what.

But I can't imagine anything more pressing than the number of casualties we would sustain in going to war. They thought Hussein has WMDs, biological and chemical weapons. You mean to tell me they went in suspecting this and not considering how many of our forces would be killed? Sorry, but I find that shocking and inexcusably derelict.

But this is a president and an administration that is certain everything it does is right and we should just trust them to do it correctly. That's essentially what the president said today at his press conference about his decision to ignore the FISA law. He claims that the Congressional authorization to use force gave him the right to wiretap without reporting to the FISA court. He also claims the Constitution gives him that right.

This is not a man to be trusted.