You're arguing a different case, Tom. Or, rather, you're arguing Bush's case obliquely. But what I'm going on about is that Bush himself is not approaching the matter in good faith. He's posturing, setting up the UN and the inspectors as straw men intending to knock 'em down again, cynically using the UN as cover after bitterly denouncing it all his career, setting up Saddam in a trap that can lead only to war. He's manufacturing his own Tonkin Gulf incident.

When Bush says that he hopes to avoid war, that war with Iraq is a last resort, he's lying through his teeth. He's doing everything in his power to ensure that there is a war. That's what's bugging me. Maybe he's lying to himself, but he's most assuredly lying to us. I cannot trust the CEO of the United States.

--Robert