I should clarify: by “us and them” I meant, broadly, those of us in opposition to the war, and those of them in favor of it. I can’t shake the feeling that there’s a logical step missing in the Iraq timeline, and that’s the step that connects the war with the attacks of 9/11: war on terror, pursuit of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, overthrow of Taliban but no capture of Osama bin Laden — purported Iraqi WMD. I am often a bear of little brain, and this confuses the hell out of me. It bothers me that more isn’t made of this gap in the media generally.

The signs painted under the freeway overpasses in Berkeley say “Osama bin forgotten” and I keep wondering why.

It will be UF v. UT in ‘08 championship game.

Gators do like prime sirloin, and we also enjoy putting it to any team that wears orange and white…

You are hereby duly warned.

I thought that we were involved in serious discussion of the issues. It appears that you were just trolling for fun. Silly me. My bad. My responding won’t happen again.

I’ll concede on this point. I wholeheartedly respect the opinion that we “rushed” into war. Perhaps resolution 935 would have been the one that worked. Based on the PHYSICAL evidence Hussein would have died of natural causes long before his rag tag troop could have posed much of a WMD threat. However, I do still maintain my “gut” feeling that he had them and he snuck them out. Unfortunately “guts” aren’t much use in debate.

Thanks for being nice to me. Kudos to everyone cept Ice Weasel and Murray. … well… I guess yaw aren’t completely useless either.

BTW Hedra, I’ll confess I’m just plain too lazy to produce much more than I have. I guess when I read the article I just skimmed right passed the “idiot” part. It’s all is very circumstantial anyway.