Give it up Mark. I see where you're coming from as most critical thinkers would, but no use arguing with an ideologue and a paranoid one at that.

>>Of course I know that advisors are critical. But using your own head and counter-balancing with the advice by other advisors are important components too.
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>The advisors are not making the final decisions, so I trust the Prez is weighing all the information he has and basing decisons on that.
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>>I still believe that Secretary Powell is against the war and have the opinion that he will resign once the war is won.
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>I would bet not, but we'll wait to see.
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>>The people, and I believe the President too, fully expected a 100 hours war or at most a 6-days war, having been CLEARLY led to that expectation by cabal members talking it up wherever they could.
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>I do not believe anyone believes that. The common belief among the population was around 2 weeks. With the threat of bio/chem weapons, no force is idiotic enough to charge directly into Baghdad within 100 hours or whatever. That would have been suicidal because of lack of adequate forces in that quick of a time period.
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>>The Iraqis are doing NOTHING that good military planners don't expect [underground operations in WWII had their similar tactics made into movies where viewers cheer their small successes).
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>I don't recall fake surrenders turning into ambushes and military attacking from the safety of a hospital. These cretins are total cowards.
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>>Rumsfeld should be quick to fire Perle and Wolfowitz and any helpers thay have engaged, then Cheney should quickly fire Rumsfeld, then President Bush should fire Cheney. I don't know where Dr. Rice fits in, but she may need the boot too.
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>Cheney can not be fired. He was elected. All Bush can do is not ask him to run again as his VFP.
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>>Then we can have a chance to see the real dub'ya to confirm (or not) that he is a good and decent and hounourable man.
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>We have seen that since the day he became Governor of Texas in January 1995.