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[Corey Wilson <corey_wilson AT earthlink.net>]

> I suppose if you think he lied about WMD, the joke is evil; if you think he
> erred in judgment on WMD, the joke is more a dose of humility.


I think the point is that you don't launch a pre-emptive war that 
circumvents the approval of both Congress and the United Nations unless 
you are pretty confident about your intelligence. 

Considering that WMD was the nail that Bush hung his hat on which 
justified killing hundreds of allied troops and an unknown thousands of 
Iraqi /civilians/, I think more than humility is in order here.  And I 
certainly don't think it should be boiled down to an egg-on-my-face PR 
stunt.

What kind of message did we send to the world?  Look at Israel following 
our lead.  It is a sad day when it is acceptable to assassinate a leader 
of a foreign political organization by shooting a missile at him while 
he is walking out of a church.  Should India just invade Pakistan and 
get it over with?  They have a nuclear missile program, after all.

And look at the message Bush is sending to us here at home.  He told us 
that we were going to war whether we liked it or not.  Three years ago 
he told us that he would be our president whether we liked it or not.  
He is saying that the democratic process on which America is founded can 
be disregarded by a leader who has the power to appoint judges (while 
congress is out-of-session) that can interpret the laws in his favor.  
And then he has the arrogance to believe that we are all so stupid that 
we don't notice what's going on.  Or that it can be erased by a little 
political humor.

The scary part is, it looks like he is right.